new wiring harness or can I buy these parts and splice them in?

holb · 10-01-2008, 03:51 PM

My 1990 GSX was having issues where the car would run like crap, lose in power, and at idle the motor would shake bad, as well as a CEL coming on.

After checking it out it seems the owner before me as ghetto taped on 3 out of 4 injectors because im guessing the clips are broken. Also along with what I think to be a plug/connector being something to do with the ignition or power transistor. Here is the plug/connector I cant find out what it is, I have done searches on here and google and getting mixed signals of my two guesses instead of narrowing it down to one.
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and if so is there a place I can purchase both without having to buy a new wiring harness? THEN if that's the case of buying them, is there a guide to splice them in or whatever you have to do? Or is it just simple as cut and splice?

thewombis · 10-01-2008, 04:06 PM

Scrap the idea of buying a new harness.. they are over $700 for a new OEM one. I would even say its not worth replacing even with a used one. I would look around for a parts car, or someone that has an old harness laying around. Best bet is to just splice them together properly with heat shirnk and everything. If the plug on both ends is broken, and you have acess to wire on both sides, you could get any standard plug from a radio shack, or online. ###### a weather proof one would be better.

holb · 10-01-2008, 04:16 PM

yea so junk yard hopping is my best bet?

What is that connector/plug anyway? power transistor or ignitor chip?

also i know computer equipment have a circuit type glue for if a connector breaks you could apply it inside the connector and hook it up and it would glue it on and would stop it from coming off along with still making it have great contact and not damage it. Is there anything like that for cars? I never looked into the ghetto rigging of cars as far as RTV goes.