Can these be spliced? There isn’t much slack to them which leaves me worried. Leaving the hood open over night, are there any other tricks for these little bastards?
Rodent damage to ABS wiring.
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Can these be spliced? There isn’t much slack to them which leaves me worried. Leaving the hood open over night, are there any other tricks for these little bastards?
Trunk Monkey
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You can get new wire ends that plug into connector end, then just cut the loom cover back a bit a do a solder butt joint. As for deterrent, there's sprays, no clue how effective they are.
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Thanks. Would that be from a dealer or is there some type of bulk wiring I can get?
I would go to a junk yard and cut out a Toyota plug and 6” of wire that has the same type of terminals as your damaged one. Depin donor plug, crimp to your chewed wires then repin your plug. You can buy repair wire but last I checked they are $10 per wire.
2001LC
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Junk yard one option.
You can de-pin those cut wire leads, from wire housing block. But can be difficult and time consuming.
Alternatively, order wire housing block with associated pigtails (wire leads), from local toyota parts counter.
Wire housing blocks, have the last 5 of part numbers on them. Add prefix 90980-*****. Then carefully breakaway practice of wire housing, from wire leads. Fast clean new and easy. Keep resistance the same as rest of wire, or better long term.
Butt solder skink warp all in one.
You can de-pin those cut wire leads, from wire housing block. But can be difficult and time consuming.
Alternatively, order wire housing block with associated pigtails (wire leads), from local toyota parts counter.
Wire housing blocks, have the last 5 of part numbers on them. Add prefix 90980-*****. Then carefully breakaway practice of wire housing, from wire leads. Fast clean new and easy. Keep resistance the same as rest of wire, or better long term.
Butt solder skink warp all in one.
Seems when they bite, they always bite right at the connector leaving you no chance to solder them back together. We've seen a lot of these at my shop and it's mostly like that. Why don't they bite the middle part of the wiring harness? lol
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Why can’t I just splice the junkyard harness with its wires to my current wires? What’s the point of depinning and pinning to my current harness?
Trunk Monkey
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Because you're cutting and splicing twice as many wires, twice as many possible failure points in the future. Depin the broken 3 and that's all you're dealing with.
Also not likely you will find the exact connector. You only need the pin style to match and ideally the wire diameter. I will try and look up what pin style that connector uses. I see it’s a waterproof style but not sure on the other details yet.
2001LC
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Finding a junkyard with one and willing to sell just that part of harness. Can be difficult. They'd likely, charge for entire harness.
Depeining, is unlocking each wire lead, one by one from wire harness block (plug). I did this once and on a 200 series brake master, in near new condition. We were doing the upgraded to add turn assist mod. We would have saved a lot of time, just breaking apart old wire housing blocks. Just one lead, that gave us truble depinning (unlocking from wire housing block). Took 4 hours. We actually each took 1 hour shifts working on same lead. PITA.
I've depinning tool kits listed for sale on CL, if you'd like one.
Make the job fast and easy as you can and best, without just buying a whole new wire harness:.
I buy OEM wire harness blocks, all the time. Most are available and used across many Toyota/lexus throughout the years.
I replaced, 3 yesterday, working on starter/S.A.I service/mod. I once, needing 7 on one starter/SAI service. Local Dealership had all 7 in stock.
I've learn to not waste time depinning wire housing blocks. Just break them apart, careful not damaging good wire leads. Also get, new wire pigtail with wire housing blocks, when wire to short to butt solder.
Here just a sample, of PN on wire housing block. They all have them
Last 5 of P/N -10845
Depeining, is unlocking each wire lead, one by one from wire harness block (plug). I did this once and on a 200 series brake master, in near new condition. We were doing the upgraded to add turn assist mod. We would have saved a lot of time, just breaking apart old wire housing blocks. Just one lead, that gave us truble depinning (unlocking from wire housing block). Took 4 hours. We actually each took 1 hour shifts working on same lead. PITA.
I've depinning tool kits listed for sale on CL, if you'd like one.
Make the job fast and easy as you can and best, without just buying a whole new wire harness:.
I buy OEM wire harness blocks, all the time. Most are available and used across many Toyota/lexus throughout the years.
I replaced, 3 yesterday, working on starter/S.A.I service/mod. I once, needing 7 on one starter/SAI service. Local Dealership had all 7 in stock.
I've learn to not waste time depinning wire housing blocks. Just break them apart, careful not damaging good wire leads. Also get, new wire pigtail with wire housing blocks, when wire to short to butt solder.
Here just a sample, of PN on wire housing block. They all have them
Last 5 of P/N -10845
I think page 112 and 381 may be helpful. Looks to me like Type 2.3 II terminals.
