Date:         Thu, 02 Jan 97 21:23:55 CST
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From:         Joel Walker <JWALKER@ua1vm.ua.edu>
Subject:      Re: Help! Pwr. Mirrors PITA!!

On Thu, 2 Jan 1997 15:35:14 -0600 Turner,Ronald L. said:
>How the hell do you remove the V-gon Pwr. Mirrors????
>I took off the glass, and that little motor, I took off the doorpanel, and
>unplugged the wire connection, But The stupid wire connectors won't fit thru
>that little hole in the door!!
>I tried to pull the wires out of the plastic wire connector but no-go.
>Grrrr.....I'm ready to cut the wires........  :<(

now, now ... there is a trick to it. look on the backside (where the wires
come out) of the plastic connector. there is a little "clip" sticking down
out of the plastic "hole", and this clip is grabbed by a little metal "tang"
that sticks up from the metal connector (the part that is crimped onto the
wires).

what you have to do is still something small and long and hard/sharp into the
hole in the plastic connector, and pry the "tang" away from the "clip" ...
this lets you pull the metal connector out of the plastic connector.

then you can feed the wires/metal connectors through the hole in the door,
one by one. yeah, it's a bitch, but that's the only way, short of cutting
the wires. :(

and you'll have to pry the "tang" back up a little bit when you put the
metal connectors back into the plastic connector (otherwise it won't latch
with the "clip").

good lucl.
joel