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Originally Posted by explosivpotato
I realize that it's hard to diagnose, and I know it HAS to be to do with the Emanage. I'll be calling Ben on my lunch break for sure.
I'm just wondering if you've got any tips on this, I found that the included crimp-on connectors were innefective (don't have a 'real' crimping tool, and needle-nose pliers only work so well on those things). My wires were falling out, so I resorted to just hard-soldering all the connections. The solder is stronger, and for sure a stronger connection, but every time I have to change a wire it gets shorter, which is annoying.
I've had some sleep now and I'll be going back to his house tonight to work on it some more after work today.
You know, I think I'd have paid a good 150 or 200$ for a plug-n-play harness. This wiring is a HUGE pain in the a$$.
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I actually asked Ben about the FROG Engineering harness that is supposed to connect the emanage to the ECU, but I guess even they had troubles with it as it wasn't actually designed properly... after seeing that it was only about 11 wires to install out of that giant GReddy harness I knew it would be easy to do..
I threw out that bag of connectors, I didn't even think twice about it. I soldered all my connections. If you solder onto the wires you should be able to just heat them up again to detach them instead of cutting them each time.. It depends on how to put the wires together before you solder them that determines how easy they will be to de-solder. I'm pretty sure the emanage was only about 11 wires or so.. that's less than doing a head unit install! But I can see how electrical wiring can be an pain in the butt for mechanics as they rarely have the skills to do the electrical side of things... not to say that you don't, but I've had installed remote starters, alarms, etc for a long time.. so automotive wiring is a breeze for me.
Best thing to do is see if you can't take a good pic of the wiring that you did and we can take a look at it to see if something is in the wrong spot.