Over the years our cars have the injectors removed nearly dozens of times, or they are upgraded, and often times their wire connectors are in pretty rough shape, due to age, the previous owner, or common newbie mistakes during removal/ installation.
now there are a number of ways to upgrade the wire connectors, one is rather crude and requires you to cut the old connectors off, and solder the new ones in, but I decided to show how to reuse the old wires cause i'm pretty sure everyone can cut and solder on there own.
Uploaded with ImageShack.comImage above: this is a mocked up jdm evo head,1G intake,my custom cop setup,and an old 1gb n/t junkyard engine harness, used for our little demonstration.
Uploaded with ImageShack.comImage above:this is what commonly happens to old injector connectors on our cars this is due to age, and or abuse...totally not cool.
Uploaded with ImageShack.comImage above: using a handy 45* pick, pry the red tab off the injector connector.
Uploaded with ImageShack.comImage above: using a straight pick carefully pry the connector lock and lightly pull on the wires, it takes some skill so if it gives you trouble take your time it will eventually come off.
Uploaded with ImageShack.comImage above: this is a break down of what it all looks like... well to be quite honest, you could practically destroy all the plastic in the above image, [if you had to] to get the metal crimp ends out, but I thought it best to show a simple break down for now.
Uploaded with ImageShack.comImage above: now here is the 2g dsm style connector it is available on other cars too
I got my connectors off of a V6 chrysler sebring/avenger, but I have also saw them on plymouth/dodge neons, and they are likely on other cars too.
Uploaded with ImageShack.comImage above: using, yet again a handy pick, remove the plastic retainer clip, easy as pie.
Uploaded with ImageShack.comImage above: here I am, using that thing I mentioned earlier [skill], and carefully taking the pins out of the upgrade connector [it was actually easier then on the old style ones].
Uploaded with ImageShack.comImage above: here it is, the new style connector, all the way dissembled.
Now reverse the order of disassembly, only there are a few matters I ran into...
the metal pins have a tab on them that lock them into the plastic connectors, and they are not the same on the older style connector, but the gray plastic tab will keep them from flying out, now to fix this the metal pin can be bent in such a way so it dose lock into the connector which is what I did.
Uploaded with ImageShack.comImage above: here it is installed on our mock up fuel rail.
Uploaded with ImageShack.comImage above: here is the rest of them, I need do this four more times, so I gotta go hope you enjoyed the post.
