ballast resistor

Cottontail · Sep 21, 2005

There are a million and one threads on here that say you can bypass the ballast resistor.

I, for one, have asked for instructions (plainly written in English that a 10 year old could understand) on how to accomplish this.

I have never gotten a response.

Will someone, please, oh please, humor me with this information.

Thanks

Biernuts · Sep 21, 2005

I think they mean just unpulg both connectors, remove the clips and splice togtether....it a resistor. You effective end up with a 0 ohm connection...I think,,,,

langer1 · Sep 21, 2005

Biernuts said:
I think they mean just unpulg both connectors, remove the clips and splice togtether....it a resistor. You effective end up with a 0 ohm connection...I think,,,,

That's it.

Cottontail · Sep 21, 2005

Excellent work gentlemen. Thanks for that information!

BIGSLVRXJ · Sep 22, 2005

Do you get more vibes at all if you bypass the resistor? I would like to bypass mine because I think it may be going bad and its in the way of my K&N.

langer1 · Sep 22, 2005

CollinM said:
Do you get more vibes at all if you bypass the resistor? I would like to bypass mine because I think it may be going bad and its in the way of my K&N.

I got a 87 and it never had one, I think lots of people get rid of them.

5-90 · Sep 22, 2005

You might get a little "pump noise" (that's why it was added,) but if you're on noisy tyres and such, you'll probably never notice it.

As I've mentioned before, it was added in 1988, and a voluntary recall was offered in 1987. My 87 doesn't have one, and I pulled them out of my 88 and my 89 Limited some time ago (and my wife never noticed.) I just didn't see any point in keeping an additional component in the system - since it's just another potential point of failure.

I clipped the spade lugs off the wiring and closed it with a butt splice - no trouble here.

5-90

BIGSLVRXJ · Sep 22, 2005

5-90 said:
You might get a little "pump noise" (that's why it was added,) but if you're on noisy tyres and such, you'll probably never notice it.

As I've mentioned before, it was added in 1988, and a voluntary recall was offered in 1987. My 87 doesn't have one, and I pulled them out of my 88 and my 89 Limited some time ago (and my wife never noticed.) I just didn't see any point in keeping an additional component in the system - since it's just another potential point of failure.

I clipped the spade lugs off the wiring and closed it with a butt splice - no trouble here.

5-90

Alright well I'll keep it in the junkpile just in case but it sounds like I'll never need it again. Thanks fellas.

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