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• Re: 5/16" space connectots for the head lights
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Tue, 22 May 2007 15:52:43 -0700
  > I duuno none of the so called FLAP here in Vic BC > have the 5/16" female spade connectors > with that tab that keeps...
• Re: Headlight Relay Kit Problems
  Historical mailing list - Brett Ne
  Sun, 1 Dec 2013 09:29:54 -0800
  ...If the wire cannot be fit back into the connector & crimped, any auto parts store should have generic replacement spade connectors that will work...
• Re: O2 sensor wire replacement, '85
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Thu, 1 May 2008 16:47:21 -0400
  ...The run from the O2 sensor to the spade connector is not shielded. The shielded wire must only be grounded at ONE end (at...
• Re: 5/16" space connectots for the head lights
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Wed, 23 May 2007 07:07:24 -0700
  > > I duuno none of the so called FLAP here in Vic BC > > have the 5/16" female spade connectors > > with that tab that keeps...
• 5/16" space connectots for the head lights
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Tue, 22 May 2007 15:05:51 -0700
  I duuno none of the so called FLAP here in Vic BC have the 5/16" female spade connectors with that tab that keeps...
• Re: Battery Light
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:16:55 -0800
  ...You just have to determine which D+ connector your alternator has, threaded or spade. Then make sure you put that type connector on your...
• Starter wiring question
  Historical mailing list - zzyzx
  Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:09:03 -0800
  ...Again, the two spades are not from a multi spade connector, they are not connected to each other electrically. My question is about the...
• ignition coil: mystery connector
  Historical mailing list - Dan Barrett
  Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:30:23 -0400
  ...There's a big plastic female spade connector block (green wire) that was attached to two of the negative terminals. There's a non...
• Re: Burnt Wires!!-Please look and advise
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:49:37 -0500
  ...The wire you're missing is just another brown wire with a 90� female spade connector that goes from the power steering pump switch...
• Re: Relay socket spade connectors
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:54:37 -0800
  ...They are often sold as Ford connectors or some such. They are not stocked in the same place as all the other spade connectors...
• Re: Relay socket spade connectors
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:03:08 -0500
  ...They are > often sold as Ford connectors or some such. They are not stocked in the > same place as all the other spade connectors...
• Re: Engine died, ecu quick look
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:49:06 -0700
  ...On the coil there is a white plastic connector with 2 green wires to separate pins. Each green wire has a female spade that...
• Re: ignition coil: mystery connector
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:26:18 -0400
  ...There's a big plastic female spade connector block (green wire) that was attached to two of the negative terminals. There's a non...
• Relay socket spade connectors
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:09:22 -0500
  Anyone know of a source for female spade relay socket connectors? They're the ones with the little barb on the sides so the...
• Re: How to remove wires from headlight switch plug?
  Historical mailing list - Tabe Johnson
  Wed, 8 Aug 2012 16:03:40 +0100
  ...Neil posted a link to a very nice photo of a spade connector: http://www.turbomr2.com/MR2/HowTo/Engine_Fans/Tripac_Fan/Images...
• Re: shielded wire for oxygen sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 21 May 2008 17:54:34 -0400
  ...The black wire from the sensor itself, up to the spade connector, isn't shielded. The green wire, from the spade connector to the...
• another spade terminal question - syncro temp gauge sender
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:28:16 -0800
  ...Rather than a rubber booted plastic connector (as in the temp II connector), the gauge sender has a disk shaped end and a spade...
• Re: 90 Carat 50 amp fuse for A/C: Substitution Possiblities: Fixed-> Solution
  Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
  Thu, 25 Nov 1999 23:19:04 -0600
  ...a) 50 amp blade or spade style fuse b) 10 guage wire c) 10 guage spade connectors that matched the spade size of the...
• Installed add on back-up lights
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:48:55 -0400
  ...In the black box on the forward firewall is a connector for the back-up lights (yellow plastic covering spade connectors). One side has...
• Re: loose blade conncectors
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:11:09 -0700
  ...I like to replace spade and ring connectors with the better quality AMP versions we use in the aircraft. Here's one source: http...
• Re: Starter wiring question
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:38:30 -0800
  ...starter has three connector points, the #1(30) wire bolt & two > separate spades, one spade for the (50) the other spade has what appears...
• Fuse 9
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Thu, 7 May 2009 17:52:52 -0400
  ...These are both wired to the fuse via a single spade connector in my van. There is another spade connector going to the fuse...
• Re: New iginition coil behavior
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:29:50 -0700
  ...I took the white plastic connector out and used 2 wires with alligator clips and connected them to the 2 spades on the coil...
• Re: Relay socket spade connectors
  Historical mailing list - Stacy
  Mon, 26 Dec 2005 22:42:36 -0800
  Will th eoriginal person looking for the spades Email me directly. I have these connectors and send what you need at a reasonable price...
• Re: New iginition coil behavior
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:44:43 -0600
  ...the tachometer works again !!! > It turns out that one one the female spades in the white connector doesn't stay in place when I...
• mystery wire(s)
  Historical mailing list - Dan Barrett
  Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:13:40 -0400
  ...Where do these wires go? Does one of them (the spade connector) connect to the oil pressure sender on the bottom left of the...
• Re: Burnt Wires!!-Please look and advise
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:03:31 -0600
  ...Replacement spade connectors don't "Have" to be 90� types of > course. > > Mike > -- Michael in San Antonio 91GL AT 'Gringo'
• Re: Relay socket spade connectors
  Historical mailing list - Tom Sinclair
  Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:28:01 -0800
  ...Tom --- Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET> wrote: > Anyone know of a source for female spade relay > socket connectors? > They're the ones with the...
• Re: Ignition wire slipping off?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:09:21 EST
  ...Just get a small screw driver and insert it into the plastic housing and pry a little to bend the female spade connector "fingers...
• Re: shielded wire for oxygen sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Wed, 21 May 2008 23:39:01 +0000
  ...The black wire from the > sensor itself, up to the spade connector, isn't shielded. The green > wire, from the spade connector to the...
• Troubleshooting Westy water level indicator
  Historical mailing list - Felder
  Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:24:39 -0700
  ...To the spade connectors are four mating connectors that come off the wiring harness. Obviously the respective circuits created among the conductive lumps on...
• Re: Temperature sensor connector (name?)
  Historical mailing list - Ry
  Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:28:30 -0500
  ...name of the connector that would >> properly fit >> this sensor? >> > > I think they just take common "spade" (AKA "Faston") connectors, slid > on perpendicular. > > http...
• Re: Please Help! Starting problems 84 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:50:37 -0400
  ...clean the connection, visually inspect the connection and the wire, then check the tightness with which the connector fits on the spade. this connection...
• Re: New iginition coil behavior
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:00:52 -0600
  ...do a Continuity Test from each of those Spades to the Post they are supposed to be nutted onto & also from Spade to Spade ~
• Re: Fuel pump question
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Wed, 28 Sep 2022 22:50:22 +0000
  I sourced a pump from one of our vendors more than a decade ago and it did not have the spade connectors.  I bent...
• booster/relay for 1981 auto-westfalia
  Historical mailing list - Steve Selin
  Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:22:20 -0400
  ...1-to a ground in the engine compartment 2- to the bolt contact on the starter 3- used to be on a spade connector...
• Re: Taking electric mirror's off the door
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:32:49 -0700
  ...I use a tiny screwdriver to release the barb that holds the spade connectors inside the plastic plug covers. Once the spade connectors are...
• fridge light stays on
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon
  Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:54:30 -0700
  Help, Anybody know exactly how the gas valve electrical lead works? Its an insulated spade connector on the gas valve the thermocouple connects to...
• Re: Temperature sensor connector (name?)
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:27:07 -0400
  ...name of the connector that would >properly fit >this sensor? I think they just take common "spade" (AKA "Faston") connectors, slid on perpendicular. http...
• Re: Relay socket spade connectors
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:40:45 -0500
  ...jonathan On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Mike Collum wrote: > Anyone know of a source for female spade relay socket connectors? > They're the ones...
• Re: Starter question
  Historical mailing list - Alex MeVay
  Wed, 7 Jul 2021 13:06:39 -0700
  > I did this at the small spade connector located next to the red black wire. Alex, is that the correct location? Yes, that should...
• Re: New iginition coil behavior
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:31:12 -0700
  The simplest explanation is that when you push the white connector onto the coil you are not really getting the female spades for both...
• Re: ... and onto the next thing ...
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 7 Sep 2014 19:38:22 -0700
  ...The connector is different - it is an asymmetric plug rather than two spades. Within the plug would be spades, but I think their are...
• Fwd: Headlight relays install grounding questions,
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:19:16 -0500
  ...Your local electronics or automotive electric supplier should stock "piggyback" spade connectors. These little critters work just like regular spade connectors except they allow...
• Re: OXY Sensor connect?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 23 Sep 2001 11:54:38 -0400
  ...I cut the wire on the sensor and soldered on a spade connector. Worked for me. Mike '84 GL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Krogh...
• Ignition Coil Wire Routing
  Historical mailing list - Dave Seasholtz
  Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:04:25 -0500
  ...There are male spade connectors terminal #1 (negative -) and terminal #15 (positive +) on the coil. What wires go where? Thanks for the advice yesterday...
• Re: Relay socket spade connectors
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:33:20 -0500
  ...Had to ask for them though. > > Tom > > --- Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET> wrote: > > >>Anyone know of a source for female spade relay >>socket connectors...
• Re: Burnt Wires!!-Please look and advise
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:55:59 -0500
  ...Replacement spade connectors don't "Have" to be 90� types of >> course. >> >> Mike >> > > > > -- > Michael in San Antonio > 91GL AT 'Gringo'
• Re: Gas heater wiring
  Historical mailing list - John Samuel
  Sat, 31 Oct 2015 01:05:43 -0400
  ...connector ) and 2 "outside" connectors .250 inch spades tag as connector K and connector 31. connector K is "unassign" - "free" - "nothing connects to it...
• Headlight Relay Install
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:43:14 +0000
  ...The spade connector was cracked and fell to pieces. Jay must anticipate things like this as he includes a couple of spade connectors in...
• HELP- water tank wiring 87 Westy Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Dana E Hager
  Sat, 17 Jul 1999 13:57:29 -0700
  ...GREEN wire with a double spade (male/female) and a BLACK double wire with a female spade connector. What goes where??? Help me, Dana...
• Re: Ignition Coil Wire Routing
  Historical mailing list - Dave Seasholtz
  Mon, 21 Feb 2000 14:56:53 -0500
  ...There are male spade connectors terminal #1 > (negative -) and terminal #15 (positive +) on the coil. What wires go > where? Thanks for the advice yesterday...
• Re: Fixed: Won't Start in St. Helena, Napa County
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Tue, 2 Dec 2014 21:04:06 -0800
  ...Those two spade connectors are carried in a nylon connector. I had to move the dual spade tab from the old coil, because the...
• Re: Only 5V at Temp II sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sat, 27 May 2017 17:23:58 -0400
  ...Run the "bad" wire past both sides of the connector to new m/f spade connectors. Stephen Mobile > On May 27, 2017, at 5...
• Re: shielded wire for oxygen sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Elliott
  Wed, 21 May 2008 17:29:32 -0700
  ...The black wire from the >> sensor itself, up to the spade connector, isn't shielded. The green >> wire, from the spade connector to the...
• '82 starter wiring
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:07:36 -0800
  ...two more wires with female spade style electrical connectors that connect to the two male spade style electrical connectors on the back of the...
• Fuel pump question
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:47:22 -0400
  ...The thing is the new old pump has the spade connectors. I think it must be new old stock. He didn’t charge me...
• Re: Automatic Starter Issues
  Historical mailing list - Aaron
  Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:15:33 -0700
  ...I tightened up the connector a bit with a pair of > pliars and in putting it onto the spade, bent the spade. Youch. > Anyway...
• Re: stud size on ignition coil?
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:55:56 -0400
  Mine has what you describe for the negative side, and then a triple spade terminal with individual connectors for the + side. but the terminal...
• Re: Hall effect sender
  Historical mailing list - Dave Bayer
  Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:33:45 -0700
  ...This elbow is a connector socket as well and so there are three spade connector type things in the elbow. It just so happens...