Deutsch connector disassembly
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great job those darn things drove me nuts to the very end of my sanity
car traffic over there is loud next time go in the backyard
your a genious for the video,i hope your bike goes 2gether smooth 4 you
and yes you should be on TV!!!!
car traffic over there is loud next time go in the backyard
your a genious for the video,i hope your bike goes 2gether smooth 4 you
and yes you should be on TV!!!!
Road Warrior
Joined: Aug 2007
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From: South Australia
good job with the vid but u live on a busy bit of road dude 
once you've done this job with the connectors it doesn't seem as bad as you were thinking, thats what i found anyway. cheers bro
once you've done this job with the connectors it doesn't seem as bad as you were thinking, thats what i found anyway. cheers bro
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I disassembled my handlebars today because I dropped my bike last week and bent the bars pretty good. I'm gonna try to get them trued by a local muffler shop (as an offline friend suggested).
I remember when I made the switch to apes and disassembling the deutsch connectors drove me nuts. I know it's always been a hot topic on here.
I did a quick little video about it. Not that difficult at all. I think video is a lot easier to unerstand than someone trying to explain it with written words and some photos.
If the vid isn't available yet, give it a few. I just uploaded it to youtube about 5min. ago. Also, I chopped my head off in it. Bad camera angle. Hope this helps someone not pull their hair out doing an internal wiring job.
I remember when I made the switch to apes and disassembling the deutsch connectors drove me nuts. I know it's always been a hot topic on here.
I did a quick little video about it. Not that difficult at all. I think video is a lot easier to unerstand than someone trying to explain it with written words and some photos.
If the vid isn't available yet, give it a few. I just uploaded it to youtube about 5min. ago. Also, I chopped my head off in it. Bad camera angle. Hope this helps someone not pull their hair out doing an internal wiring job.
Longhair, that is a Molex connector,
no need to needlenose the secondary lock all the way out of the housing.
pull it out slightly, then a wire to push in and release the primary lock
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Mudd, I'm pretty sure its a deutsch connector. In my days as a pc tech, floppy drives had molex connectors to connect them to the power supply. They resembled what we have on our turn signal harnesses.
Check this link out.
Check this link out.
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From: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
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I've built deutsch connectors regularly for harness in the marine industry and they are typically grey with "Deutsch" on them. Different question for Longhair- what caused that bad vibration your engine had a while back?