Comments by "Arthur Samson" (@Rekuzan) on "Rainman Ray's Repairs"
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@RainmanRaysRepairs Old, brittle plastic is a fact of life and these connectors are going to get broken over time. This is a fact of life and is unavoidable in this line of work. That being said, it's always best to avoid surgery on a wiring harness if it can be avoided because each and every soldiered joint added is another potential point of failure in the future. It's unlikely to happen when done properly, yes, but is that much more of a potential risk in the future. Also, I wanted to mention a life-hack I came up with over the years when dealing with old plastic connectors: Thermal dynamics is most useful here, and I'll often use a self contained micro-torch on the lowest setting at a distance of about four to six inches or so to heat up the whole thing, softening the plastic a bit, but waiting until after it cools down most of the way before disconnecting it.
Another strategy is to heat it up some, bend it back just a little bit so it's free of the lock tab, pull it apart, and then re-heat the tab a bit before gently bending it back into place. Don't get me wrong, sometimes more effort than it's worth, but this technique has actually saved me more than a few times. Also, you can use Super Glue & Baking soda to form a really strong home made epoxy that you can build up layer by layer as an effective repair on plastics if replacement isn't much of an option.
Oh yeah, also, REEE, or something....I guess?
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REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, YOUR'RE DOING IT WRONG WHEN IT COMES TO LUG NUTS!!! Seriously, my old instructors would have a heart attack, stroke & 3 kittens each watching you torque lugs like that. You're supposed to put PARTIAL weight on the wheels after the torque-stick, and before the wrench. You go around, and you torque the nuts to spec ONCE with partial weight, and THEN you put full vehicle weight on the wheels before re-torquing all the lugs TWICE, you drive the vehicle a mile or two, heat up the lugs, nuts and wheels to operating temp, and then re-torque them AGAIN just to make sure thermal dynamics isn't playing you for a dumbass! tl;dr = Who the F*** has time to do it 'by-the-book'??? It's not like youtube is FULL of Dashcam footage of what happens when a wheel comes off on the highway.......OH WAIT!!!!
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