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[tomc3]

I have a 1998 CSVT with a bad wiring harness, and I have a late vintage cougar harness that has one important difference - the contour has a 4-wire connector to the ignition coil and the cougar has a 3-wire connector.....is it possible to simply obtain a cougar coil and hook it up? Would that work, or is the 4th wire important?

Yeah - i know this is kinda screwy, but lots of the early csvt's have bad wiring harnesses - I know the '99s were good, but have this harness, so wondering about the ignition coil only (at this time). Thanks for any sage words of advice (or flames...expecting a few of those)

Edited by tomc3, 31 August 2010 - 06:49 AM.

[Terry Haines]

..sounds like your harness with the 3 pin coil plug is for a Zetec and not a V6...

[BuckeyeSVT]

Newer Cougar V6's still have a 4 wire connector at the coil (it's just smaller). If it's 3 wires, than I'm with Terry on this one and you're looking at a Zetec harness.

-Dom

[spridget]

X3

Cougar V6 harness is 4 wire. I recently converted a 2002 Coguar harness to use the earlier Contour coil. The plugs are shaped differently, but the wiring is the same.