Electrical connectors - t-stat housing
 

the fan switch broke off the engine harness and my fan switch is not is much better condition.

Any where to get replacement connectors-besides ray?

Why not cut the connectors off and crimp on some new ones. Skies the limit but with the amount of A's those draw I would go with some weather-paks or 280 series metri-packs.

Terminal Supply Co or Del-City.net would be the best places, but I believe they have a $25 minimum order. I have seen them @ Napa on occasion.

digi-key probably has the plug you want. or just re-crimp new plugs of a different style on. would be pretty easy.

:dunno:

sorry - a bit not sober - but how do you change connectors - if they have to fit the sensor?

I use GM weather packs .Just solder wire ,wires to the unit and install a GM connector .Cut the broken connector from the harness and put in the maching GM connector .I keep 1 wire 2 wire 3 wire and 4 wire ones in stock .They make a 6 wire one as well .I buy them by the box and have been useing them for several years.I solder on the wire wires to the sensor and fill the cavity with epoxie .

Thanks,

Rotary Performance gave the same advice. Where do you get your connectors?

also can a mod fix my typo in the title?

There are three places that I use, but I buy in bulk, regardless, I'd stock up. They're great to have around rather than waiting a few days

Waytekwire.com
TerminalSupplyCo.com
DelCity.net

Terminal Supply and DelCity have connector kits, I believe. Watch the A ratings though. Metri-Pak 150's are good for 14A, Weather-Paks are good for 25 or 30 I believe.

can you get them local? Napa, lowes, etc?

Seen then @ Napa a few times for sure..... How quickly do you need them? :rofl:

i would say this weekend--but its Halloween -- which is a drinking holiday - which means I will probably sleep/hate life sunday.

Ah, yeah, sadly I have to be at work friday-wendnesday at 7:00 or earlier.... so yeah, no fun for me this weekend...

Give a call to Napa and see if they have them, if not, hit me up and I'll drop a set in the mail to ya ;)

Kinda scared to find out what else you would send. Would say bdc's head. But you havnt travelled through yet.

do you need the 144.00 tool to install these?

No, the weather/metri packs can be installed with a $15 radio shack crimper, but it takes three different crimps to get them tight. The proper tool does a better job in one crimp. The deutch connectors on the other hand, or any mil-spec plug... I spent $320 on those crimps but OH MY GOD ARE THEY SOOOO SEXY....

thanks. we use deutch at work. I thought of getting help from a EE there, but they are not my favorite people.

put in an order thru http://rjminjectiontech.com/?p=12

Good prices and the tools Thanks for the info .I buy the plastic part 5 to the box ,one box is male and another box for female .The metal parts male 25 per box female 25 per box and the rubber seal 25 per box .

Pics?


I love seeing good wiring jobs.... warms a special place in my heart :P


J.

Good prices for single kits, and definately a good price on the tool.

I go through WayTekWire.com.... here's the big difference
The link you provided is $1.75 for the kit... waytek sells the Female housing for (and these are all rounded to the nearest full cent) $.30, Male housing for $.51, seal for $.07, and the terminals for $.12. So in theory a kit would cost $1.19. The kicker is the minumum on orders is 10. So while it's cheaper for me to go through Waytek, when are you going to use 9 more of those connectors? Good find hades.

Through Napa?

I have that tool, but found that after wiring for an entire day that the racheting crimper for 2.5x the price, is definately worth it, again, for me, becuase I do ALOT of wiring

:rofl: I've got them in my build threads.... allllll over the place.

I checked every parts store in Denton - Orielly's, Pep Boys, Napa, Auto Zone, Car Quest and THE DEALERSHIP. It was like I was talking to retarded monkey's.

can't wait for it to show up. and my back cover to my replica M2 box.

I think I'll be picking up a crimping tool (Daniels af8) and hopefully sourcing a cannon plug with the appropriate gage and number of ports for my ECU install. We'll see what happens.

http://www.connecticc.com/

;)

hey TTT, what is the gage size on your cannon plugs? Are they 20 or 16?

20. Tefzel will carry 7A and the pins are rated for that. I'm using some hermetically sealed connectors on my fuel cell that are 16ga Tefzel (13A) and they're doubled up for the fuel pumps with Viton heatshrink. There is really no reason to have any wire in an engine harness over 16-18 ga, I don't care what anyone says.

I use amphenol at work.
http://www.amphenol-aerospace.com/default.asp

Also does anyone know where I can get the dies for the weatherpack connectors? I have the tool just need these dies.
http://www.pegasusautoracing.com/Images/L/4185-150.JPG

Got my connectors and tools in. FYI. The company I bougt from is small. Their communication is so so. But I did get it on time and everything us in the box.

I played around / practiced and got the fan switched wired up. Then I got a call to drink beer. Decided that wiring drunk would be a bad idea

It is..... Wiring while tired is a bad idea also....

Whoever offers the tool should also offer the dies. The dies are probably going to be specific to the tool.

FWIW, I'm not a fan of the die set tools. I'd rather just get a complete crimper.

the only thing I don't like about these connectors is that they are kinda long. Wish they were a bit more compact. That's just me being picky.

There better be pictures of the crimper too... (thats what I was after, I mean a $320 crimper.... I hope it at least gives you a little tickle goodnight before you put it away...)

I'll be searching your build threads now :P


J.

Ah... Yeah that thing.... it jumps out of the box everytime I open that draw and it jumps down my pants and strokes me repeatedly... yes.... and I return the favor by tweaking it's turretts and squeezing it.

http://www.dmctools.com/assets/AF8-TH1A_1.jpg

For anyone that wants to use Deustch connectors, but doesn't want to spend a months rent on crimpers, these work well for all the DT, DTM, and DTP connectors.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/D-sub...motiveQ5fTools

Those crimpers work for the Deustch solid contacts that looks like this.

http://www.laddinc.com/images/storie...d_contacts.jpg


An alternative is to use the stamped form contacts with an inexpensive W crimper, like is used to crimp Weatherpack terminals.

http://www.laddinc.com/images/storie...d_contacts.jpg

A good source for the Deustch components and other harness materials is www.prowireusa.com

Where do you live and do you have a room for rent!?!?!?! That's about a weeks worth of a shitty studio up here...

Hahaha

I live in a 60 year old house in the middle of Indiana. It's probably not much bigger than that studio, but it's mine. ;)

Studio's like 6-700 sq/ft. Owning is good.... got any spare rooms? ;)
NE is retarded with housing prices, that is all. Driven by people not knowing how to plan finances, buying based on what they can afford not what something is worth....

Oh what's that? You can only afford $3k a month... well this $700k house with this exotic mortgage can get the pmt down to that.... but the house was worth $500k 3 years ago... aaaaannnnnddd???? OK... sign me up....