This came out of a wire guard near the distributor cap. It was melted by the engine ground when I had the fire a few days ago. I don't notice anything that isn't working (nothing new anyway). I just wondered how much of a pain it'll be to replace. Fortunately, it melted in the connection, so it should be a cut off and splice job, right? Someone chime in who knows better, please.

 

A picture might help y'all.

 

I may be wrong in this, but that looks likes the infamous tach filter wire that several people have been posting about lately. Are the wires white, hard to tell in that picture.

 

Thanks Trickster,

It looks whitish. Hard to tell though. Could this me why my tach flutters sometimes or what is it's purpose?

 

I know you dissconnect that wire when you set the timing. It dissconnects the engine from the ECM

 

If that is back by the dist, that is not the connector that you unhook to change the timing. I am going with trickster on this one, looks like the same wire I have on my car by the dist, the one where I hooked the tach up to. I have the came kind of connector on it.