loose wire harness trick
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Topic: loose wire harness trick
Posted By: rollingrocktx
Subject: loose wire harness trick
Date Posted: June 25, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Hey guys/gals
Just put in a new Pioneer 4100 HU, used the PAC wire adapter for the ford specific. Noticed that one of the pins in loose and the connection goes in out and out for the factory sub.
Is there a trick to makeing that pin tighter? Right now we have it tapped up but that is only tempoary. We dont'want to replace the entire wire harness b/c it is a pain to cut and stat over.
We were thinking maybe a toothpick end would help.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks
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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: June 25, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Any jury-rigged solution like a toothpick has the potential to fall out, which simply delays the correct solution, to replace the defective harness. ------------- Support the12volt.com
Posted By: KPierson
Date Posted: June 25, 2009 at 12:39 PM
If you can remove the pin completely from the harness you may be able to fix it. They typically have a small finger that locks them in to place once they are inserted. That finger can get bent if the harnesses are forced together when the pins aren't lined up. If that doesn't work, something I just to occasionally do is caretully extract a pin from a similar harness (without damaging it of course) and putting it in to the damaged spot. This could also work if there are wires in the harness that arn't being used. ------------- Kevin Pierson
Posted By: paidnfull
Date Posted: June 25, 2009 at 1:27 PM
I just put a bit of hot glue or epoxy
Posted By: rollingrocktx
Date Posted: June 25, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Thanks guys,
I ended up taking it out and running it up to the shop to exchange it..will take them a few hours to get to the warehouse and get another one, but I didn't want to mess around with it..even my installer said he would rather have a new one vs trying to make that one work.
Thanks again
RR
Posted By: soundnsecurity
Date Posted: June 25, 2009 at 5:44 PM
if it were me i would just jump the connection with some wire with a connector in the middle. but thats just me, i got an A+ in ghetto rigging from circuit city university  -------------
Posted By: spookiestylez
Date Posted: June 25, 2009 at 5:57 PM
As installers ourselves, we would have made it work. But you took the right path as the consumer and got a replacement.
soundsecurity- how dare to speak blasphemy about the chitty city.lol
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RTFM
Posted By: soundnsecurity
Date Posted: June 25, 2009 at 6:10 PM
spookiestylez wrote:
As installers ourselves, we would have made it work. But you took the right path as the consumer and got a replacement.
soundsecurity- how dare to speak blasphemy about the chitty city.lol
lol, hey, it wasn't that chitty. at least not to one i worked at, cant speak for others but we had some good installers, only the product was garbage. -------------
Posted By: paidnfull
Date Posted: June 26, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Posted By: rollingrocktx
Date Posted: June 26, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Thanks again guys, got her all installed again last night...hooked it up to the overhead Alpine DVD screen too. works great and we didn't have to drop the head liner again...most of all...momma is happy with it.
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Posted By: rollingrocktx
Date Posted: June 26, 2009 at 3:54 PM
sorry those links didn't work...
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