Tail Light Connector Repair!
Have been able to remove the pin from the tail light connector - wiring harness side. Once removed the crimped wire can be removed, a new wire crimped (I prefer to solder it) terminal opened again, and re-inserted. Done, no splice! However if the splice is done in the boot nobody knows anyways and its much, much simpler.
But for those of us (including me) that are annul about this stuff the connector can be taken apart as follows.
The copper column which has the spring around it and contacts the light bulb will remain in the plastic connector.
One needs to look in the back (wire end) into the copper column. The wire is terminated on a connector which fits into said column. IT is this part that one needs to remove. The wire connector is "V" shaped with the wire crimped on one of the leg of the "V" (Therefore one leg of the "V" is twice as long, the long leg with other called the short leg)
The short leg of the "V" runs along the copper column making the electrical contact. The contact is such that one can not slide a screw driver between it and the copper column (don't try). Once you have determined where the short section of the "V" is -- slide a screw driver on the opposite side (180 degrees from short leg) into the column under the long leg.
I use a .055" wide Jewelers' Screw Driver, the next size of .070 did not work.
The screw driver flattens the "V" so it can be pulled out of the column. This is a Jewelers Job not a weight lifter operation so take your time and use only min force on the wire for removal. I needed to push the screw driver in 4-5 times before successful.
It appears the the copper column was originally inserted into the connector then a tool inserted in the back which flared the back end of the column then the wire crimped on the connector slide in.
One caveat - I used a repro connector, however it seems the same.
Have been able to remove the pin from the tail light connector - wiring harness side. Once removed the crimped wire can be removed, a new wire crimped (I prefer to solder it) terminal opened again, and re-inserted. Done, no splice! However if the splice is done in the boot nobody knows anyways and its much, much simpler.
But for those of us (including me) that are annul about this stuff the connector can be taken apart as follows.
The copper column which has the spring around it and contacts the light bulb will remain in the plastic connector.
One needs to look in the back (wire end) into the copper column. The wire is terminated on a connector which fits into said column. IT is this part that one needs to remove. The wire connector is "V" shaped with the wire crimped on one of the leg of the "V" (Therefore one leg of the "V" is twice as long, the long leg with other called the short leg)
The short leg of the "V" runs along the copper column making the electrical contact. The contact is such that one can not slide a screw driver between it and the copper column (don't try). Once you have determined where the short section of the "V" is -- slide a screw driver on the opposite side (180 degrees from short leg) into the column under the long leg.
I use a .055" wide Jewelers' Screw Driver, the next size of .070 did not work.
The screw driver flattens the "V" so it can be pulled out of the column. This is a Jewelers Job not a weight lifter operation so take your time and use only min force on the wire for removal. I needed to push the screw driver in 4-5 times before successful.
It appears the the copper column was originally inserted into the connector then a tool inserted in the back which flared the back end of the column then the wire crimped on the connector slide in.
One caveat - I used a repro connector, however it seems the same.
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