lonsal

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Does anyone have a recommendation where I can get a female connector used on the 88-91 hatch pull-down units? It is black plastic and has a number "PED 15" molded into it. It has a black with orange stripe wire crimped to it and connects to the white wire coming from the hatch pull-down unit. It is also used on the hatch pull-down itself, crimped to the blue connector that attaches to the red/white stripe wire that supplies +12v to the pull-down unit. I'm headed out to Pep Boys, since they've had the best selection of connectors including the weather-tite style used in the engine compartment.
You want to know something crazy, which is prompting me to try and find these connectors? GM sells the 1986-87 striker sensor (p/n 20627125) for less than half what they sell the 1988-91 striker sensor (p/n 16604067). I ordered samples of both. The 16604067 description says it is an assy, yet the 20627125 says it is just a Striker Sensor switch. I figure that was the difference. Well, to my surprise BOTH are a complete assembly, just plug in the relay and attach it to the latch assy and you are good to go. The ONLY difference is that the 86-87 uses a different style connector on the blue wire. So until they run out of stock, you can guess which one I'll be buying. I lucked out because I cut the mating connectors and kept them with about 7 of the hatch pull-down units I scrounged up. I'm just trying to find a source for them new. I hope I'm more successful than I was with the push-in cable clamp. I FINALLY found a source for one that is very close to the one GM used. Only problem is just 2 are used per hatch pull-down unit. My local source for the clamp has a $100 minimum, meaning I'd have to buy 1000 to meet their minimum. I imagine it will take me many years to sell 500 repaired and re-manufactured hatch pull-down units. I don't even want to discuss how much capital I have invested in this project already.

Thanks,

Lon Salgren
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Justins86bird

Have you tried Napa for that connector? I've gotten hard to find connectors from them in the past.

PonchoDoc

Go to the boneyard and grab one. I get a bunch of my connectors that way.

Jza

He's gonna be using them on reman motors. I doubt a lot of people will want boneyard connectors on their reman hatch units.

Have you tried Packard? They made a lot of the connectors used on GM (and other) cars.

DAVECS1

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Just do a search for weather pac or metri pac on the net. I do fuel injection retro fits and I bought a 300 dollar set that had 2/4/6/8 pin weather pacs, seals, pins and sockets, and a crimper. duetsch makes a nice connector too. That is what we use at CAT

lonsal

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Well, PB was a bust. They did have a good selection of weatherpak connectors and some other larger misc. connectors, but nothing this small. As I previously posted I have already gathered a few connectors from the Pick-a-Part. It's been a few weeks since I last visited a few of them, so it's time to hit them all again. It is very discouraging to find someone has torn a hatch pull-down unit apart destroying it, because they don't know the proper way or are too lazy to disassemble it properly. All for a stupid little $2 gear nut that they stuffed in the pocket. :nono: The yard doesn't care that the unit is incomplete and insists on charging me full price. I throw away the gear nuts, broken guides and cracked motor housings anyway, replacing them with new parts. But often they take a few parts that I can't otherwise obtain, such as the lift rod and clevis pin. Or it forces me to invest a lot more to rebuild the unit, shrinking any possible profit margin. Sorry, just the rantings of a discouraged ThirdGenner. Back to our regularly scheduled broadcast.

Lon

Justins86bird

I still don't know why GM made that housing and gear nut out of plastic. Its gonna break!

87Formula4bbl

Is that PED 15 connector a 3-wire connector? If so, that is the exact connector I am looking for for my stupid RamJet map sensor. And I'll be danged if I didn't find on on my dad's Polaris fourwheeler, it is for the front headlights. I almost snipped it off, haha. I'm gonna call up a local cycle shop and see if they can't pull up a P/N on a microfische so I can order one. I hate trying to get these dumb connectors. I've lucked out with a few that were recycleable from my old setup.