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Good morning y’all

 

Good Morn TTC

And i always thought i was older than you Damn.

 

Feels like a good day to wash the truck! ...as i typed that i remembered im helping some friends move today. Oh well still a good morning.

 

Morning, re-painted my front bumper yesterday then got almost white girl wasted and was in bed by 11. Today we go to check out some GX470’s, got 3 on the radar. Looked at one yesterday and it’s a solid rig.

 

Haven’t Noticed

 

Did you get the adult version with alcohol?

 

Add some booze, it’s worth it

 

I only drink with other people

 

We can drink together one evening and talk trash about everything.

 

My HAM radio group Walker County Amateur Radio group wcarg.org is running a new feed line up the tower today.



I worked ground crew, and the Taco was our tie off anchor while taking breaks.

Carry On!

 

Calling any and all electricians, those with wiring experience, and anyone smarter than me (which should be everyone).

Preface: when it comes to wiring and electronics, I am pathetically slow doing anything with a negative level of confidence of what I'm doing. Half the time, I pay someone far too much money to take a butt connector and connect two wires together. I know not to stick a fork into a socket, stay away from power lines, and not to whiz on the electric fence (@Pandaman59). So this will be a basic bitch question, but I'd really appreciate it if y'all took me seriously and offered help.

Equipment: two plug connectors - in case you're wondering, they're connectors for the horns. The original corroded apart somehow, shorted, drained a battery prematurely, killed the horns, and has become yet another fucking stupid issue that I should not have to deal with, but here we are.



Problem: How can I splice these two wires like below and maintain a solid connection so I won't ever have to deal with corrosion destroying the wire and associated problems? No, I cannot remove the connector from the plug. OEM, the wire from one connector is crimped in the connector of the first, but since I had to have someone make these for me, I naturally forgot to tell them to wire it as it was OEM. Again, here we are.



(tagging @loginfailed because this dude is something else)

THANK YOU.

 

Cut wire wire where you want a splice, and use a butt connector. Should take you 30 seconds.

 

Even three way?

 

Strippers (no not that kind), soldering iron and heat shrink!

 

It looks like he’s just trying to crimp two relatively small gauge wires (I’m guessing 18-20 GA) together.

 

Soldering is generally not used on vehicles because the joints can crack from the vibrations of a normal vehicle. Auto manufacturers almost exclusively use crimp connectors, and occasional soldering of common grounds or splice points.

 

They're 18 GA