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Old 09-17-2009, 12:41 PM
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I am going to be building a LSx swap harness. I will be repining and rerouting a bunch of things and using all new wire looms and make everything organized and whatnot. I need to make a few repairs also.
Only thing is, I don't know how to solder. Can someone out there experienced teach me? I figured it's not to hard, but I want the harness to come out professional.
Any help is appreciated. -SRJ
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Originally Posted by ss.slp.ls1
I am going to be building a LSx swap harness. I will be repining and rerouting a bunch of things and using all new wire looms and make everything organized and whatnot. I need to make a few repairs also.
Only thing is, I don't know how to solder. Can someone out there experienced teach me? I figured it's not to hard, but I want the harness to come out professional.
Any help is appreciated. -SRJ
Buy a soldering iron, some solder, and just start practicing on some old wires or something. I watched my friend and it looked easy as helllll. I soldered some wires and it is no problem at all.
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its pretty easy man.. get ur self a craftsman solder gun and the good quality materials. practice on a few. cut enough and take your time



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Yup, soldering is easy. Just buy some rosin-core solder, a soldering gun/iron, and practice on some spare wiring... Pretty much just heat up the wire with the iron, then push a strand of solder onto the hot wire or iron next to the wire so that when the solder melts, it coats the connection.

Use shrink wrap, electrical tape, and lots of wire protector tubing (and more electrical tape over that).

The hardest part is waiting for the iron to heat up.
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you sounds like haighter, the sucker can weld good, but he cant solder lol
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uhh...u kno we can do this right? lol
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what trent said. i did it on my nitrous install 2 years ago and it came out good.



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