_Madman_
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- Oct 14, 2004
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Riga,
Europe
I finally found 97-99 ECU connectors from junk-yard for my '96 DSM to replace the bad ones on my car. Actually, 1 of them (the one with injector wires and power wires, pins 1-26)
And today my car refused to start because of poor injector wire contact, so I have no other way than to try to fix the connectors (Driving with injector wire coiled over the nail which is pushed right into destroyed connector is not funny...).
So, the idea is to splice the wires, take off around 1 inch of insulation, bend them together, heat them, and then use the solder over the heated wires to solder them.
But few friends of mine have scared me that soldering ECU harness is a very bad idea. They said that soldered joints tend to break on vibrations, and, also, that car can catch fire. One friend told me he caught the smoking harness just in time to stop the full blown fire.
Are those more like an urban legends or is there some truth behind all that? Should I solder the connectors tomorrow, or should I avoid it at all costs?
And today my car refused to start because of poor injector wire contact, so I have no other way than to try to fix the connectors (Driving with injector wire coiled over the nail which is pushed right into destroyed connector is not funny...).
So, the idea is to splice the wires, take off around 1 inch of insulation, bend them together, heat them, and then use the solder over the heated wires to solder them.
But few friends of mine have scared me that soldering ECU harness is a very bad idea. They said that soldered joints tend to break on vibrations, and, also, that car can catch fire. One friend told me he caught the smoking harness just in time to stop the full blown fire.
Are those more like an urban legends or is there some truth behind all that? Should I solder the connectors tomorrow, or should I avoid it at all costs?