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Lazy Daze Forums => Lazy Daze Technical => Topic started by: Mindispower on May 21, 2018, 09:54:17 pm

Title: What are these?
Post by: Mindispower on May 21, 2018, 09:54:17 pm
They are behind the driver seat. Cannot find info in any of my documentation. Thanks
Title: Re: What are these?
Post by: Larry W on May 21, 2018, 11:52:15 pm
In the first photo, the thing on the right, with five wires, is the ignition control module.
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I don't know what the blue box, with three wires, is.

The second photo doesn't show much, it looks like it has is a removable plastic cover with a partial word 'uter' visible.
My guess is the engine's computer (ECM) may be inside. Grab a screwdriver and find out.

Larry
Title: Re: What are these?
Post by: Andy Baird on May 22, 2018, 12:45:42 am
'My guess is the engine's computer (ECM) may be inside."

Yup, it's the engine computer. Some old Chevy van chassis had the ECM mounted behind the driver's seat, with a fat bundle with a zillion wires leading forward to the engine compartment. Why would they do this? I'm guessing it was because the engine compartment is a VERY hostile environment for electronics, with heat, vibration, and most of all ignition noise, and they had not yet learned how to "harden" the ECM against all that.
Title: Re: What are these?
Post by: Chip Chester on May 22, 2018, 10:05:36 am
You can tell it's a computer from the 80s just from the typeface. Regardless of what the letters actually spell...  :)