Crimping vs. Soldering

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by vex

B and I both know that if you want weather resistance you need some Mil Spec 38999-C III plugs with electro-less nickel plating and RFI grounding with self locking plug.

When everything else could fail; these types of plugs will keep on trucking though the most hazardous environment imaginable.

Yup yup.... I love them damn things. My FD is going to be riddled with them.... all those silly harnessi routing around the engine bay and under the fenders and shit

Originally Posted by ducktape

The weather pack connectors are great. I highly recommend for heavy-duty stuff, but on a street car they're overkill for most jobs. They also seem a little pricey when you're doing a complete harness, and I could never seem to find a large enough weather pack block to do a single-disconnect for a 15+ wire harness. On the plus-side, you can buy a weather pack kit with a bunch of terms and pins at nearly any auto parts store.

They make universal de-pinning tools BTW. They look sorta like gaper gauses with tubes sticking out.

/Cheap trick: Coffee-stirs work pretty decent as de-pinning tools on some connectors.

I dunno.... OEM's use weatherpack and Metri-pack all over the bay and they're designed to last.

For large pin numbers, weather pack really isn't the way to go, they're too bulky and rated for 20+ amps per pin. Very rarely is there a need for something that heavy. Metri-packs are smaller in size, and smaller in amps... 14A I think. Then there is the Deutch connectors.... for large pin numbers, those are the shit, generally half the size of the weather packs.