It will be in the large bundle that is wrapped in the plastic tubing
which is wrapped with the fabric tape. The way I found mine was just
wrapped in electrical tape within the bundle. The copper ring reminds
of what can be found in home wiring when connecting the bare grounding
wires in terminal boxes. They are not ring lugs like you find on
power buses, ground wire, etc... On my 96 they were literally little
copper rings that the bare stripped end of wires were inserted into
and then the ring was crimped down to make the connection. Sort of
like a crimp quick connect connection minus the plastic sleeve and the
inner metal tube only being about 1/4" long. It was squished flat and
that was all the connection there was between the wires. No silicon
goop to protect the copper ring or anything, just a few twists of
standard pvc based electrical tape.
I was far from impressed by the quality of design with these splices.
What scares me most is that all the other splices on the dakota are
probably done the same way, which means I will eventually get to enjoy
finding them and rebuilding them as well.
WiLieR
On 9/13/07, rws <rwsam2002@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi WiLieR,
>
> On my 94 there is a thick wire bundle that is visible
> on the passenger side FI's and it runs to the rear
> firewall and then to the PCM. On the front it branches
> over to the other bank of FI's. It's about 1" thick.
> It's wrapped in tape and covered in corrugated
> plastic split-tubing. Btw, it's cloth tape. I had to
> replace some of it here and there due to deterioration
> and exposing the wires. I used black electricians
> tape and the same corrugated tubing, but more of it to
> cover the parts of the harness that was not covered.
> Shame that the newer models haven't improved.
>
> Are the copper rings you mention inside the thick
> bundle? What holds the copper rings together? Are
> they Ring lugs like what I see used for grounding to
> sheet metal on the fire walls?
>
> Ron
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