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Old 10-21-2005, 09:43 AM
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Whats the best type of wire splicing connectors to get? I want something that can be permanent and is reliable.
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Yeah, solder and heat-shrink tubing is dead
reliable. If I use a crimp connector (like spade
or Molex or MetriPak) I solder it too, for luck
and corrosion.
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In high vibration environments a soldered crimp connection can cause the wire to fail at the joint.
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With proper care and tools, crimping a weatherpack or metripack connector is normally good enough. Connectors are available from waytekwire.com.
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I usually solder and heatshrink but how would you do that when your soldering a wire to the throttlebody harness where you can't get the heat shrink over the connector?
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Where can you get the delphi connectors locally? Does a pep boys, advanced or similar have them?




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