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Power mode mod...where to get pin??
I'm doing the power mode mod in my car. I'm looking for a female pin that I can connect the wire to and then snap into the connector for a solid, clean connection - I don't want to just shove a wire in there and hope it holds.
Has anyone else done this? Where did you find a female pin that fits? Other than a donor harness, because I don't have that. I was thinking maybe I could buy something at Radio Shack that might work...?
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Re: Power mode mod...where to get pin??
I put female connectors from Radio shack on the wire leading to the on off switches connectors, but I bent them at a 90 angle to make them shorter when they were on. The wire to the TCU I just pushed in with out any special connector.
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Re: Power mode mod...where to get pin??
I think a socket pulled from a pc motherboard header plug is close. I used one from a connector from motherboard sound card to cd drive.
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Re: Power mode mod...where to get pin??
You can get replacement pins with a short wire pigtail on them from Subaru, every dealer should have a termininal/wiring harness repair kit they can sell you a pin out of. (If I can figure out what pin it uses, I can order a 10-pack through SPX, heck I could probably make a kit for people who aren't as mechanically/electrically inclined as the rest of us...)
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Re: Power mode mod...where to get pin??
Thanks everyone for the suggestions...I ended up using a pin out of a wiring harness from a burned out PC power supply. It was one of the pins on the little square 4-prong connector for P4 motherboards.
Fit nice and snug, and works great Now I just have to figure out my dash illumination issues at the switch, and I'm done...
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