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Wire Terminal Removal Tool

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#1 ·
Hi all

Does anyone know of any good terminal removal tools like the link below? I am likely gonna be swapping fuse boxes due to my accident and while picks and t-pins work, I'd rather do the job right and not risk damage to the terminals when I remove them from the engine bay. Just using picks on the fuse box I have in hand is hard enough. Doing it in the heat in the the engine bay is gonna be unbearable.

 
#2 ·
Some guys on the T100 area used this kit or one like it with no complaints.
Looks like it'd be trial and error until you found the most common extractor.
 
#3 · (Edited)
I have the one @sdspeed mentioned. I bought the two pack on flea bay to disassemble a junkyard fuse box. But honestly you only need a good pick tool in general. The only instance I used the tool was for molex style plugs. There is hardly any other use for your box swap.

Edit: it’s all about the handy work. Doesn’t take much to dislodge the clips. I used a straight pick the whole way. 10mm socket for the main fuse and that was all. Maybe scissors to cut the tape wrapped around some wires.

Once you bottom out the pick on the clip just pull it away the connector. Zero brute force needed.

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#5 ·
Yup, those work pretty well. If space is tight though, like many wires, or potentially with your fuse box, sometimes the individual ones can be more user friendly.

It is a very simple thing being done. The blade on the wire just has a little metal tab locking it in. So what those are is to just get the right little blade to compress the tab to pull the wire out. I just don't know what your particular connectors look like. Got a picture of the connector in the block from the fuse side? I think I know what one it should be to pop them out, but not 100% sure.
 
#6 ·
Outside the car, I found the main issue I had were that the picks were a bit big and that because it was a pick I was just stabbing into the plastic so it took some effort to actually move the clip prior the terminal. If I had effectively a tiny flat head screwdriver, I wouldn't stab the plastic as much.

Now let's add in the heat, the sweat, and in the engine bay,, and that I want to attempt to pull these each out one small section at a time and plug it immediately into the new one so that I won't have just a giant mess of wires to sort through. This is when using a pick would effectively suck. You can kind of see some deformation too on some of the clips.

The tool may be a one time use item but less effort to do the same amount of work is worth the lack of frustration.
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#7 ·
I bought this kit, it may be full of duplicates and I may only use one of them I will at least have a backup if I lose some.
 
#8 ·
The kit finally came in. Really the kit consist of like two or three main sets of tools and duplicates of them so there are about three sets of duplicates and I am only gonna use like five of them but at the very least if they break you have spares. They are pretty flimsy metal but I think just hard enough to not out right bend. The tool I highlighted I feel is gonna be very useful because that little pick on one side of it allows me to go in between the terminal and then push up on the plastic clip. The main thing I am doing is filing them so they have more of a bladed tip so that it might slip under the plastic clip to make it easier to release it. I might end up with a set of eye glass tools as a backup but in comparison, when I used the picks I had I was stabbing into the plastic and they were mostly too big. T-pins might be a good contender to be better except t-pins are only so long and getting stabbed by them will get old.

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