Let's beat this dead horse somemore:-)

there should be 4 wires on top of the intake, 2 with female bullet connectors and two with female connectors.

a fuel injection style clip connects to your thermotime switch and that is the big sensor in your picture. The wires from the fuel injection style clip turn into female connectors which clip into either the two black or two green male bullet connector wires usually with a red peice of tape on them.

The water temp sensor which for some reason you have a ground wire soldered on should have a fuel injections tyle clip also, and the wires goto 2 of the 4 wires on top of the intake. they will have female style connectors.


water temp=two male bullets to two female bullets

thermotime=two female bullets to to male bullets.

i would just worry about the water temp at the current time, unplugging the thermotime wont affect the way the car runs and will only affect it at start up.

find the 4 wires!!!mine always seemed to be at least a foot away from teh thermostat housing toward the intake/distributor area.

Look under the throttle housing. There is a small metal pipe (vacuum fitting) on the underside of it. Run a hose from there to the distributor vacuum can. T into this hose and run a hose from the T to the small fitting on the charcoal canister over on the passenger fender. Looks like someone has hooked this charcoal canister hose up the the throttle dashpot! Like someone else posted I believe that sensor switches between the two pickups in the distributor at a certain temp for emmisions reasons, the later cars don't have this and they run fine with it left unhooked. The water temp sensor for the gauge (single bullet connector sensor, no wires) will be a yellow wire. That and the small EFI temp sensor are the main ones that need to be right! BTW if you swap the thermo time switch and EFI temp sensor plugs, it won't even begin to run right.