while looking for the cause of my statiky sound coming from stereo i found out that when i was taking my tranny out i must have accidentally pulled a silver wire out. it goes from around the cat area to somewhere inside the car, idk what it plugs into, i was wondering if you guys could tell me, thanks.

 

exhaust over heat sensor maybe!

 

Yeah, you must have an '84-'85 car.

 

yeah it's an 85, but uh, where does it plug into, do i have to take the driver side container box out?

 

I used to know what it's called but I think it's the exhaust overheat sensor like Ben said. I simply took a small piece of steel, drilled two holes in it and stuck it on the exhaust flange when the connecting pipe went into an '83. As for the '84 car, it got a different exhaust and I simply used some mechanic's wire to tie the sensor probe thing up out of the way. It didn't affect anything.

 

except when you park over leaves for extended periods of time lol it does nothing. You would know your exhaust was that hot way before that light came on!

 

Cooking grass smells kinda good, when you're in the right mood I guess.

 

thank you guys

 

I thought that was the cat overheat sensor. The exhaust overhead sensor that triggers the dash light is on the floorboard?