Anonymous Posted on Dec 09, 2009

Broken pigtail on back of odometer

Recently replaced my wifes blend door actuator on an 03 explorer, busted one of the pigtails on back of odometer...not sure looked like 20 or so wires on it. largest one on passenger side of odometer. anyone know where I can get another pigtail so i can do a wire swap? is it very hard to splice a new one in? is boneyard my only choice for this item? i talked to a few dealers and said they would have to replace whole harness...wasnt trying to go through all of that.

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Yes unfortunately the boneyard will be your only option and they will most likely charge you for the whole harness as well unless they have a damaged harness with a good pigtail you might get lucky, as for spliceing it in, a huge job to do it right. With that many connections you will probably want to splice the wires in different locations say 1/2 inch apart from each other because what you are suggesting is a huge amount of solder and shrink tube or crimp connections (don't recommend) which will take up a lot of space. I really suggest you try and change the harness as it will be extremly frustrating, splicing that many connections in the car and I am not insulting your workmanship but it probably won't last.

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