I had just picked up dad from dropping his car off to get some body repairs, and was in a hurry to get him to Erie. it would fire a few times then die, fire and die. Spewed out a little black smoke. Jumped out and grabbed the hotwire I made minutes before leaving the house to put it on the shutoff solenoid, and the blue wire was ready to fall off. I tried to close the connector up some but it almost fell right back off. My shutoff has two tabs on it, so it got two wires hooked to it til I could get home and replace the connector.

What does the second wire on the side of the pump do?

 

The second wire powers the KSB solenoid.

 

Ksb?

 

The ksb advances the timing as rpm increases

 

Oh OK. I bet that helped when I hooked that back up. It's the connector I scavenged to get home the other day when the electrical system took a dump. I did that and the spring/linkage swap at the same time. When I got home yesterday I put new connectors on that and the shutoff wire. I cut the plastic off the crimp connectors and put dual-wall (watertight) shrink tubing on them.

I bet the poor or non-existent connection there is part of why it seems to have more power now.