| - Paper towel or small rag is a good thing to pack around the connector to keep the clip from getting lost. Magnetic pickup tool might help -- assuming you can find the clip??? - Dental picks or similiar help a lot. Use it to pry one side of the clip away from body of connector. Use needled nosed pliers or screw driver blade to firmly push clip backwards (push on clip sharp end). It won't some out yet -- just need to get a corner in the back free of the plug. Then use needle nosed pliers to grab that corner and pull it free. Sometimes you may need to use the pick to pull the corner out a bit more for the pliers. - If saving the plugs aren't important (they're being replaced) - just use a big bladed screwdriver to twist from bottom (upward) and force plug body away from injector - some (plug) plastic will likely break due to age of part. - If re-using connectors: When replacing some folks have left out the spring clip since the injector plug also has small locking tabs. - If you want to reuse the clip -- might want to try mod'ing the plug a bit for easy removal next time? Take a look at the backside of the plug and notice a little plastic tab that keeps the spring clip from sliding backwards out of it's channel. Break that tab off and the next time it will be much easier to slide the clip backwards. I've broken some of those tabs (on purpose) as part of removing the clip -- it's not a good option if connectors are really old, since the plastic is pretty brittle. - Last tip: If the wire dust boots on the connectors are all cracked (or become cracked once you get them off the injectors due to age) - think about replacing the connectors with new ones (you can buy them with pigtail wires all ready for splicing in). Any cracks in the dust boots allows moisture to enter the connector and mess up the contacts over time. I've repaired them using some black RTV - but that's only a short time fix...
|
