so im posting this up for my brother in law he gets check engine and i looked at his engine bay and i found this cut wire next to a sensor plug any one know what it does what its for????



there some what cheap picks but hopefully someone can help me out thanks

 

help us help you. typing a 98 ek doesn't really help.
it's a 98 civic, but what model?, manual or auto?

and worse case scenerio, being that it's a obd2 set up, you can go to any parts store and they will hook up the diagnostic computer to it for free and read the ecu code.

 

my bad its a 98 civic dx manual

 

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread/1901557

Thats the reverse light switch - shouldnt cause a cel

 

Check out the code by reading the top of this forum and looking in the Check engine light thread and check the code yourself. Go from there.

 

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Exactly that wont cause a code, and that plug thats chilling there connects to it. Pull the code and see what it says.

 

obd1

 

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Excuse me?