removing ecu pins

[UrS4boy]

Spink: I borrowed your photos to create this T55 ECU harness pin removal post on my home forum (I can convert it to vBulletin for posting here too):

http://forums.quattroworld.com/s4s6/msgs/212815.phtml

[UrS4boy]

Steve E., our Motronic guru on this side of the pond, has commented on my ECU pin removal post:

"The pink locking piece MUST be slid into the open position, or the terminals won't come out no matter what tool you use to release the locking tab. There are two tabs on all the terminals that I have used, but only one locks into the the connector housing, so if you damage or break off a tab, you can reinsert it 180 degrees from where it was originally in the housing and it will lock again. Even if both tabs are broken, the pink lock piece will keep the terminals from sliding out.

IF you do mess with the connector, and I don't recommend it unless you absolutely have to, know that almost no force is required to pull the terminals from the housing. If you are pulling hard, either the pink lock piece is not in the right position or you have not released the tab. There is no reason for the connector to look like the damaged one in the picture. "

I am adding that to my post.

[spink]

Spink: I borrowed your photos to create this T55 ECU harness pin removal post on my home forum (I can convert it to vBulletin for posting here too):

http://forums.quattroworld.com/s4s6/msgs/212815.phtml

no probs

[prj]

"The pink locking piece MUST be slid into the open position, or the terminals won't come out no matter what tool you use to release the locking tab. There are two tabs on all the terminals that I have used, but only one locks into the the connector housing, so if you damage or break off a tab, you can reinsert it 180 degrees from where it was originally in the housing and it will lock again. Even if both tabs are broken, the pink lock piece will keep the terminals from sliding out.

Exactly, this is what I meant by disassembling the connector before trying to remove the pins.

Works exactly the same on the newer ECU connectors (EDC, ME7) as well. If it's pink chances are you need to slide it or remove it to get anything out

[AndyP]

need to add 4 pins into an ecu connector on an a6 to install cruise,normally i would have just bought some pins from audi but I forgot and i need to do it tomorrow so had to get some out of this old connector I had laying around.

I think steve will be converting to aby type coils on his 3b?

Don't forget to take plenty of pics so I can copy you

[spink]

Don't forget to take plenty of pics so I can copy you

I did and I will be sure to delete them all

I had to take my own car apart to see how Jon did it a few years back as all the pics in his thread are gone

I will stick them up on the end of his thread in a couple of days

[AndyP]

Anybody know the part number for ECU pins?

[andyg plym]

Andyp look on my old posts ! I got them off eBay gimme a shout if you can't find them I have a bag of them !
Check out my non start posts from feb time

[AndyP]

Andyp look on my old posts ! I got them off eBay gimme a shout if you can't find them I have a bag of them !
Check out my non start posts from feb time

Found the ones on Ebay, cheers