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Originally Posted by blackrosenova400
Hey Chris, if you take a look in your pic here you see those blue butt connectors? replace all of the red butt conectors you have with those type of butt connectors.
With those blue butt connectors, you are supposed to take a lighter or apply heat somehow the ends of the butt connector, it will shrink against the wire insulation and keep water/moisture out.
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LOL, remember that I 'fixed' this around this time of year, middle of january. It was cold as FUCK out and I was basically praying that replacing all these connectors would solve the freaking crazy problems I was having: windshield wipers stayed on, tail lights would go out, ignition would stay on, etc etc etc.
Thanks for the advice but I have since junked the car seeing as I rolled it, remember? :P The blue connectors are always way better than the basic red ones (once heat is applied as goodhart stated). They're a happy mix between simple butt connectors and soldering. Soldering where these wires is would be nearly impossible w/o removing the entire dash. Again back to it being cold as fuk out, soldering was not an option. Then as I replaced wire by wire with my trusty blue connectors (I also used these for my mini wire tuck over the top of the engine) I eventually ran out. The task of actually bypassing the harness plugs (what this thread is really about) was actually fixing problems one-by-one so I told my frost-bitten knees (even in a heated garage this is one of those spots, kneeling on the floor, that never will be warm) to fuk off and lets DO this. I told myself I'd replace them if I ever had even a minor problem, but it was never an issue after that, so those connectors may still be in the hunk of metal that used to be my beloved dsm/evo.
TL;DR - fuck it.