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    Smoke coming from Passenger floor

    I should probalby add that I drove the car for 10 minutes, and no wires felt warm
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    Smoke coming from Passenger floor

    OK- I got all the wires mended, I do believe. There definitely seemed to be water coming in around cabin air filter housing. I pulled that and replaced crummy old gasket with a fat bead of roofing black jack. Also, my drain holes under the batter already have the rubber pieces pulled out, and...
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    Smoke coming from Passenger floor

    I know that it looks like its plugged in, but if you look close you'll see that the plug is actually just in the box facing down. It isn't connected . And it was not connected. Does that mean that any wires that go to the TCM could just be "capped" instead of chased down and repaired?
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    Smoke coming from Passenger floor

    one of the wires that is completely melted is a thin brown wire, the other is a medium black wire, both coming from TCM, looping from door, by seat, then headed under center console and out the other side to drivers side. Most of the damage is done on passengers side where there are literally...
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    Smoke coming from Passenger floor

    Thank you all for the responses. I appreciate it. The leaks: After taking the seats out, and pulling up the carpet on both sides towards the center console, I have found what I hope are the only places that water is coming in. In the rear passenger side, about 4 years ago, I had a rock go thru...
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    Smoke coming from Passenger floor

    wire bundle come from tcm: same view as yesterday, with melted plastic "protector" taken off: TCM pulled out, looking dry: wire damage: Where wire bundle from TCM comes back towards rear of car, then makes 3 way split, 1 to rear, 1 over to where first pic showed plastic protector...
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    Smoke coming from Passenger floor

    I pulled up the carpet, and theres a bit of moisture under there. Not a puddle, and didn't see any inside TCM box. There is however what looks like a single wire that has all of insulation melted off in a couple spots, and has done damage on other wires around it. So I guess its getting a short...
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    Smoke coming from Passenger floor

    Where theres smoke, theres fire, right?? Well, thankfully, not every time. Last night, I was driving and all of a sudden noticed lots of smoke coming from my ash tray, center console, and passenger floor. I pulled over, and found that the floor mat was very hot on the passenger side. Not...
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    185k b5 top end replacement in NE

    you all have given me some very good advice. thank you. I do have a stage 2 tune, egr delete, and bsm delete ( no sure if thats even relevant), and I hope that won't lead to a similar issue down the road without the beefed up cam. It just seemed like a big leap to go with something like the...
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    185k b5 top end replacement in NE

    I went with the kit from boraparts. http://www.cascadegerman.com/product/038109101af-kit/ And I didn't speak with the mechanic on his plan to break in the cam, but on bora parts it says : Camshaft Break-In Procedure: Put assembly lube on all lobes, lifter faces, distributor gears, bearing...
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    185k b5 top end replacement in NE

    i ended up buying all parts needed for 885 from bora. the mechanic said that if i was getting my own parts labor would go up a bit :/ quoted me at 14 hrs @ 95/hr for the camshaft replacement and deluxe t belt kit (belts, water pump replacement, etc). seems like my simplest option as of now...
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