Oh, and something I forgot to ask about... You mentioned above that you had not noticed any ears on the tail lamp connectors, but what's confusing to me is that the photo you posted HAS the mounting ears.

 

Did you take that pic or just nab something similar (but not quite identical) from off the web?

The picture with the ears was from the website, to show the plug was a similar shape.

 

BTW- are you aware of the the new heat shrink tube with solder?  It appears to be a viable way to make quicker butt connections on an automobile with sealing and good 'pull-out' strength.  The only drawback is that they use new shiny copper wire instead of our corroded copper stuff.

 

Video: 

 

Amazon item:   http://www.amazon.com/Shrink-Solder-Sleeve-Crimpless-Connectors/dp/B00IEFOCRK

Here is an example of the connectors I got from the JY.  This one has 4 pins, and as you will see, there is an internal seal (the red rubber ring.)

 

 

 

 

While it would probably work for LED lighting, I'm not too sure this would work as well as I'd like it to work for me.  This connector was not easy to take apart, and when I tried to push it back together the pins were bent apart and couldn't be straightened.  I will have to toss this one in the trash and consider something else, probably a lighting connector instead of an engine sensor connector.

Edited May 23, 20159 yr by TomoHawk

I got my 6-position MP6N connector from cycleterminal.  It looks fairly similar to the tail lamp connector, but I'll have to go out to the car to check it, maybe Friday.)

 

If it's still not the same connector, I can use it for the center console.  Why did Nissan need all those smaller connectors (and several pairs of bullet connectors) for the switches, and the lamps (shifter, ash tray) when they could have combined it all together?  It's probably some kind of  production simplification thing.

OK, I can now confirm that the cycleterminal YC2506 6 pin connector does, in fact, fit the taillamp harness connector on my 280Z.  I'll be ordering another soon, and probably a 6 or 8 pin connector set to clean up the mess behind the center console. 

 

I just wish I could straighten out the rats nest of wiring behind there.  Wasn't it all straight runs of wire bundles in the beginning? 

 

 I suppose I could use the special extraction tool to get the pins out and just transfer them to the new connector shells, after unmessifying the tangles.

Great. That'll provide a source for others.

 

Getting the contacts out of that spade connector body is pretty easy. If you managed to get those contacts out of the Ford O2 sensor, then getting the contacts out of that six position spade connector will be a breeze by comparison. Paper clip, jewelers screwdriver, small piece of stiff wire. You can even see the retaining tang without magnification.

I would just use the chisel blade in the Xacto knife.

 

BTW, I didn't take contacts out of the Ford oxygen sensor.  I just cut the connector off with a bit of wire on each part.  those connectors probably aren't meant to be used more than once-  I couldn't get it back together!  The pins kept bending.

Edited June 16, 20159 yr by TomoHawk