trbankii
09-30-2005, 07:39
The PO of my truck pretty much butchered the wiring harness at the rear of the truck. The chassis harness comes back to the plug, there is a T-plug going to a 7-pin trailer harness, and then the other plug going to the taillights.
It looks like there were at least three (maybe four) other trailer harnesses spliced into the 7-pin harness and the taillight harness and then the wires were cut back off - leaving all these little stubs. When I pulled the plugs apart, they were so corroded that a number of the pins broke off. Passenger side backup light isn't getting power and some of the other lights are a bit flakey.
So my thought was to just start clipping things apart and soldier stuff back together. However, the wires seem to be coated with something that is keeping me from soldiering them at all. Now I've been soldiering since I was kid - Heathkit and Radio Shack kits and all of that. Is this something particular to GM wiring?
It looks like there were at least three (maybe four) other trailer harnesses spliced into the 7-pin harness and the taillight harness and then the wires were cut back off - leaving all these little stubs. When I pulled the plugs apart, they were so corroded that a number of the pins broke off. Passenger side backup light isn't getting power and some of the other lights are a bit flakey.
So my thought was to just start clipping things apart and soldier stuff back together. However, the wires seem to be coated with something that is keeping me from soldiering them at all. Now I've been soldiering since I was kid - Heathkit and Radio Shack kits and all of that. Is this something particular to GM wiring?