Originally Posted by BillGrissom

I'm not sure that side is a connector. The screws might have just been for strain relief. You might have tugged the wires out of a circuit board. Anyway, that rack position sensor is just for EGR control, so if you eliminated that (like many), it isn't needed. I put an older engine w/o that in my 1985 and runs fine, but my EGR is "temporarily off". ...