San Diego Aptera Event

I forgot all about this.  The SD Aptera event was fantastic.  My wife won one of the raffle rides and was taken around the parking lot.  The car was smooth, stable and quiet.  It going to be revolutionary!!!

 P.S. The San Diego Auto Museum has a great collection of cars on display.  Its a very unique collection of ultra rare cars from the U.S. and Europe.

EGR Solenoid for 1990 Geo Storm

I have a 1990 Geo Storm that needed a new EGR Solenoid.  You can't buy them anywhere new, and the used ones are ~$150.00 or more.

I found a replacement.  You can use a 1994 Chevy/GMC 25/3500 Solenoid.  Works the same.

You'll need to modify the electrical connector on both the solenoid and the harness.  Nothing serious I used a pair of small wire cutters to make the mods.  

The pins on the harness and the solenoid both line up, but because the connectors are physically different you'll need to modify the harness connector and remove a small plastic stub on the solenoid.

You'll notice that if the wiring harness connector didn't have the outside lip??? it would fit inside the solenoid connector.

1.  On the solenoid there is a plastic stub between the two pins.  Remove it.

2.  On the wiring harness connector(mine is the blue euro type connector).   Remove the outside part of the connector (the lip???)  I cut my all the way back.

3.  Connect the harness to the solenoid.

4.  Connect the EGR hoses backup to the ports.  Ignore the port with the filter on it.