re: Milano questions

[Dana Loomis <dloomis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dominic wrote:
>Second, as I was reading the shop manual last night I saw that the Milano's
>are supposed to come with a "ignition advance unit."  This unit has a
>temperature sensor located with the other coolant sensors near the
>thermostat.  Well I checked mine.  The sensor is there but there is no wire
>going to it.  Nor could I find any trace of a wire which may have lead to
>it.  

Your car is the way it should be.  The coolant temperature sensor for the
spark computer was installed on early Milanos for emission-control reasons
but subsequently found to be unnecessary.  The factory issued a service
bulletin instructing dealers to disconnect the sensor and cut off the wire.
 Sounds like your car was modified as it should have been.  On later cars
(3.0 l models, at least), there was no sensor and the mounting point on the
thermostat was even eliminated.  

Dana Loomis

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