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Basic Question: What is this and should it be this way?

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QisofrKuin

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Dallas, TX
Perhaps someone can tell me what these two things are. First, this Bosch box here:
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Mine doesn't seem to be attached to anything. But nearby was this, also just sitting loose:
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Which runs with this plastic tube with some intermittent dark liquid in it through the firewall here:
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What are these two things and do I need to connect them? The more I poke around this car the more I find things just simply disconnected or loose, so I'm trying to button them all up, but my ignorance is enormous.
The car is a 1981 244 DL, non-turbo.

Thanks everyone.
 
The Bosch box is a voltage regulator. Early alternators used an external regulator while later ones were internal. Your alternator was probably updated but they didn't bother to remove the old regulator.

The other thing was used to add an oil pressure gauge.
 
hiperfauto said:
The Bosch box is a voltage regulator. Early alternators used an external regulator while later ones were internal. Your alternator was probably updated but they didn't bother to remove the old regulator.

The other thing was used to add an oil pressure gauge.
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Great, so no need to worry about either of them it seems, since I don't have an oil pressure gauge. That's a relief. Thanks!
 
MasterBlaster said:
Who's in the what where now??

In case he hasn't checked, the sender lives just in front of the oil filter, and behind the alternator (on 240s).

There may be extra fittings rather than just the stock sender.

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Ah, thanks for showing me where to look. I'll check tomorrow morning when the rain has finished here in Dallas and see what I find.
 
MasterBlaster said:
Who's in the what where now??

In case he hasn't checked, the sender lives just in front of the oil filter, and behind the alternator (on 240s).

There may be extra fittings rather than just the stock sender.

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The answer is that there is something there. I don't know what, but it has a black tube coming out the back that gets bundled up with the wires from the alternator and runs with them into the recesses.
 
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