My LH rear light was intermittent and it turns out moving the connector a little makes or breaks the connection. My rear light circuit boards have gold plated fingers so the problem is the OEM connector. I dipped the connector in TARNEX and then blew it out and dipped it in solvent and blew it out. Still was a little intermittent. I then bent the pins in so it made a tighter fit and all that improved the problem but I still can see a slight flash (I have LEDs) moving the connector a little.
Has anyone found replacement pins? I would think not since these are RISK connectors. I think I will look at replacing them with a modern connector pair. Just solder the wires on the male side to the circuit board.
My LH rear light was intermittent and it turns out moving the connector a little makes or breaks the connection. My rear light circuit boards have gold plated fingers so the problem is the OEM connector. I dipped the connector in TARNEX and then blew it out and dipped it in solvent and blew it out. Still was a little intermittent. I then bent the pins in so it made a tighter fit and all that improved the problem but I still can see a slight flash (I have LEDs) moving the connector a little.
Has anyone found replacement pins? I would think not since these are RISK connectors. I think I will look at replacing them with a modern connector pair. Just solder the wires on the male side to the circuit board.
Found the problem. Not sure if this was done at factory but it looks like someone could not use a crimper on that red/black wire. It does look as old as the good crimped pins.
Do the replacements from DPI and Dgo require a special crimper?
I fixed that bad "crimp". I was able to open the attempted crimp, cleaned the inside by scratching with exacto. Stripped a new part of the wire, cleaned it with 220 grit and tinned the wire. Then I just rolled the crimp since my crimpers would not work with those terminals. Soldered the result. Now no intermittent.
I think you would need a crimper that has the tooling on the end of the jaws to clear the spring end.
Dave M vin 03572
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Originally Posted by Bitsyncmaster
