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Originally Posted by cjsgarage
Lastly, I had to wait for a special tool to come in so I could finish the MilSpec connector that makes the engine truly disconnectable in a few seconds.
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Hey, I love wiring too! We're a rare group. You know, every time I've stuffed regular "automotive" wire into a Mil Spec connector I've regretted it down the road. Because the jacket is larger than on teflon coated mil spec wire, so the standard pin extraction tools won't work. I've had to throw away perfectly good mil spec connectors because I could not get the wires out. This is when making changes down the road, which always seems to happen for me.
Of course the alliterative, if you're stuck with the automotive wire on some other part of the loom, is to do a butt splice for each and every wire leading to the connector, transitioning it to mil spec wire. That can be a lot of splices, each one a potential failure point, and it also gets bulky. So despite my better instincts I still stick automotive wire into mil spec connectors, I just figure I'm permanently dedicating the connector to that use, with no changes possible.
It's all so much easier with compact and slippery mil spec wire though!
