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http://honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t= … nector+pin
That might help ya out. Good luck.
Cool. Good luck. If you can’t solder the wires together because there isn’t enough length of wire, you will need new pins. Those crimp-on pins are a one use wonder.
Also, if it’s like GM’s, you will need a special crimping tool to make the proper connection between the pins and wires.
ok since i got the wire apart. the wire on the car harness is really thin.. does it matter what guage wire i use
It depends on what you are doing. Are you attaching new pins to the wiring? If so, I would cut off the exposed wiring and connect the pins to clean(er) parts of the harness. Basically cut the wires off near the end and strip the insulation off, exposing the wires. This would also apply to soldering. Make sure you leave enough wire length for the wiring to move around and don’t drag it into contact with moving or hot parts. Also, if you solder new wire on, don’t forget to put some heat shrink on the wiring BEFORE you solder it, because you need to keep the wiring from touching each other, and protect it from the elements.
The Honda dealer. You might ask about the crimping tool while you are there, or shop online for it. I don’t personally know if the car requires one, but using a generic crimping tool is not what you want to do.
They should have the pins I would think. You might even be able to sweet talk them into crimping the pins onto some wiring if you do it right. I have literally had exhaust repairs (I hate exhaust work, and I didn’t have a welder) reduced by nearly $200 by offering to buy the shop lunch. I work at a pizza restaurant, and get half off pizzas, so $20 in pizza saved me a couple hundred bucks. You aren’t asking for nearly as big a favor, so mebbe you can find a tech with the tool, and buy him some McDonalds to the same effect. Good luck!
You can repair the connector. Knock the pins out of it get new ones. Then you can either reattach the pins (they crimp on in GM cars which is most of my wiring experience to the existing wiring, or attach new wiring and solder the new wires to the existing connection. Or, you could go find the connector at junkyard and cut it off with some extra wiring, and solder those to the existing harness.
Eric’s video on soldering (sort of):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L61LJcz7H6g
Good luck, and welcome to the forums.
I thought about getting the connector at a junk yard. But I Cant find a junk yard around that has 8th gen civic. I dont know if i can push the pins out without breaking the whole connector
There’s usually some type of release clip that you remove, and all the pins can be GENTLY pushed out the back side of the connector. Like I said, I’m more familiar with GM’s, but mebbe I can find something for ya.
Well done forum as I was going to suggest the same thing. BTW I’ve actually had some luck reusing pins (especially when it seemed that the one I needed was always out of stock when working at the dealer). I would gently bend the wire connection so that I could reinstall the wire and I would also add a little dab of solder after crimping the pin back over the wire. It was ugly but it worked when I needed it to.
ok So Check engine light is out. Seems to have worked. I went to the Honda Dealer to see if they had pins for this connector. They had a million pins similar but nothing quite like the ones i needed. So i bought about 10 of the in different pins just in case. I couldn’t get any of them to fit in there like i wanted them to. So i just got the old pins got them crimped.m Soldered them in nice and good. The hardest part was trying to solder the wires from the car to the connector. Because it was part of a wiring harness. Had to do it over head next to the vapor canister. and of course Honda only gave you the bare min amount of wire to use. So it was tough to say the least. But all in all, its done engine light is out. Thanks for all the help guys
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