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GM never made this, no. It does not existed as theory had no reason to make it since it strictly was used in a PC board application.
We looked into tooling it for the very reason you're inquiring about and the tooling alone was over 20K. Then you had to purchase a few thousand pieces to get the piece price to anything close to reasonable ($3.50 ea.). Bottom line... you'd end up having about 32K tied up in 3,000 pieces and a lifetime supply of the parts. Obviously, we passed.
Donny
That is too bad about the set up costs.... I certainly looked for alternatives for quite a while before cutting the end off my dash harness.
Yep, It's disappointing that a guy has to resort to chopping the end off the main connector in a harness that I believe does not have 1 cut in it anywhere! But I suppose when your installing a brand new dash, A 600 dollar stereo and 900 dollars worth of Dakota Digital gauges, Theirs probably not much chance that there will ever be any other changes made to it as long as I own it and after that I guess I wont care anyhow. I converted over to the SS style dash back in 2001 and Installed the Exact 72 reproduction stereo so I figured the best way to start off was by selling my dash as a complete unit, Which I guess really pd off as it sold only after 1 week of being listed. I kinda hated to sell the new stereo just to replace it but it is what it is. after the new dash is installed I will only have about $500 out of pocket on the conversion so I guess it's not all bad. At least at the end of this job, I will finally have it the way I want it.
By the way aawtech, I would bet you could have easily gotten nearly 10 times that amount in a heartbeat. I wouldn't hesitate to spend $39.00 to even $49.00 just for that connector and I bet almost anyone making that conversion would too! everyone I have talked with that has done it already said Dam, If I could only have gotten my hands on that connector I would have in a heartbeat!
I will be chopping the end off mine in December unless I find an alternative. I have a buddy that's an electrician that wants to take a look at it before I cut it. Sure would be great if he could come up with something but I will be surprised!
I will be chopping the end off mine in December unless I find an alternative. I have a buddy that's an electrician that wants to take a look at it before I cut it. Sure would be great if he could come up with something but I will be surprised!
What are you trying to do? Who's dash are you installing? Why not make a dis-connect as we do with our Classic Update kit? I may be able to suggest a few pretty slick ways to do this instead of screw-lugs. Just a thought.
We researched that connector for a long time, and spoke with many industry partners and there just isn't the interest in the part that you have put forth. The instance of people doing what you are doing is minimal at best. We even spoke with the custom gauge manufacturers who could have used it in their conversions that we actually build all the harnesses for, and they were not even remotely interested at all. It's just too much money for the part, and even if you used 100 a year at 30 bucks a piece, you wouldn't get your money back for about 11 years. An extremely bad investment business-wise.
Donny
I'm going with a Dakota Digital setup this winter. I didn't care for the thought of just cutting the plug off or splicing the wires together to get to there control box.
OK, so cut the connector off your wires, put different terminals and connector on them, and put the mating end onto your wires to the control box, making your own disconnect. That was the other reason that no one would buy that connector for 40 or 50 bucks. You can achieve the exact same thing by making your own disconnect for 10-20 bucks depending on what you choose to use as terminals and connectors. That is exactly what we do with our Classic Update kits, and we've sold 10's of thousand of them and never had a complaint about it.
Just a thought. let me know and I'll be glad to offer you a few suggestions.
Donny
I ended up just cutting the wires and soldering the new wires to the existing. out of the dozen I cut off at the plug, I only needed about half of them as the new kit comes with new senders and wires for most of the stuff. Real happy I decided against that cheap 2 post connector I was planning to use. Soldered and shrinkwrap on the wires turned out so much cleaner and I'm sure it will be problem free for years and years!
I scrapped the whole connector Idea and just bought a new soldering iron and stripped and soldered all my connections and covered them with shrink tubing. After cutting the 12 wires off the plug it turned out I only had to reconnect 3 or 4 wires to the Dakota control box. Oil, Water and speedo have there own wires and I had to reroute wires for directionals, hi beam and brake lights. So happy I decided to solder instead of using some cheap thing like I posted on this thread. I'm certain the connections will last forever that way. I appreciate your tips guy's cuz it got the wheels spinning and took me in a better direction.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
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