Single Wire Seals, Installing

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NOTE:

Single wire seals prevent the penetration of water and dirt into the connector housing. They are installed in the engine compartment and must be reinstalled after a repair.

Single wire seal is crimped on at the factory together with contact on the wire, this is not the case for repair wires. Single wire seal must be slid onto the wire first before crimping the repair wire.

Single wire seals must always fit with the repair wire cross-section. Outer circumference of single wire seal is aligned according to chamber circumference of the connector housing. Perform assembly using only the assembly tool with correct fit.

Assembling Single Wire Seal

-- Release the contact lock using the correct release tool -A- and then pull wire with single wire seal toward rear -arrow- out of the connector housing.

Fig 1: Identifying Release Tool To Release Terminal Lock

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-- Cut the old contact with the single wire seal from the vehicle-specific wiring harness.

Fig 2: Cutting Off Old Terminal With Single Wire Seal

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-- Slide the repair wire with the new contact into the corresponding connector housing chamber until it engages -arrow-.

Fig 3: Identifying Inserting New Terminal Into Terminal Housing

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-- Connect the single wire seal -A- to the free end of the repair wire.

Fig 4: Identifying Putting Single Wire Seal On To Free End Of Repair Wire

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NOTE:

When doing this, the small diameter of single wire seal must point toward the connector housing.

-- Slide the single wire seal -A- onto the repair wire up to the connector housing -arrows-.

-- Slide the single wire seal -A- into the connector housing until it stops using the corresponding assembly tool -B-.

Fig 5: Identifying Procedure To Insert New Terminal

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-- Shorten the repair wire and the vehicle-specific wiring harness single wire as needed using the : VAS1978/3 .

Fig 6: Cutting Wire

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-- Crimp the stripped ends of the repair wire and single wire of vehicle-specific wiring harness using the : VAS1978/1A and a crimp connector as described in "Open circuit with single repair point".