When I disconnected my tachometer to take of the instrument panel off to see the mouse(mice) nest that was built behind the main gauges, the black wire that has a female end that plugs into the pink wire with the male end broke. The male stud broke cleanly right at the edge of the black connector. I know not to cut or splice into this pink “resister wire”. Is this repairable? The tachometer was working properly with no issues prior to this. I do have a spare tachometer but I don’t know if it works.
Most of the male end of the pink wire is inside the black plug but it probably can be retrieved and maybe soldered back to the other end but that seems quite difficult. I haven’t tried reconnecting the tach wires as it is now since the male end is right at the very edge of the black plug. (See pictures)
The good news is I see very few chewed wires. Most of the damage seems to be mouse pee or human wire hacking. The grounds look hideous so maybe that is why most if the interior lights are not working.
It’s a weird wire. It’s made out of some sort of carbon infused cloth encased in the pink plastic. I don’t think that you can do anything to the wire itself.
If you can strip the plastic from the broken end maybe you would have enough metal to crimp a new bullet connector onto? Alternatively maybe there is enough metal to solder a new bullet connector to?
I run across this all the time. First, use an easy-out on the broken off male pin in the mating female socket.
Now, to address the broken off male pin on the pink resistor wire: you can use standard trailer pin wires (see https://www.delcity.net/store/Molded-Connectors/p_917717) and you’ll have to butt-splice a new male bullet plug into the pink resistor wire. The resistor wire cannot be soldered, which is why it has to be butt-spliced.
I am familiar with butt-splice technique. However, to clarify on this one - do I cut the broken male pin off at the edge of where the pink wire meets the male stud and then strip back a 1/4’’ of wire for the butt connector? To attach the new male stud it will require connecting the other end of the butt connector to a wire different than the special pink resistance wire. That doesn’t seem correct.
I’ll disagree with Royce, as soldering a new male pin to the existing connector is dicey. Just butt splice the pink resistor wire behind the old connector to a standard wire of short length and appropriate gauge with its own new male pin. My link to delcity.net is what I use when this happens.
