Remove Electrical Connectors to Reach Car's Heater Core Hose

Video Transcript

"Hello I'm Mark Blocker from expert village. In this segment we're going to cover the removal of items for accessibility part two. After removing the air booth, the next thing that's primarily in our way is this group or cluster of electrical connectors. These electrical connectors are connected to a metal bracket. We can remove the connectors from the bracket but we're still going to have the bracket in our way. So the simple solution is to remove the bracket's mounting point and then we can remove all the connectors and bracket assembly all at once, pull them aside and gain accessibility. So this bracket's held on with a Phillips screw, so we're going to remove that screw and relocate these electrical connectors out of the way of our heater hose. You want to make sure and get the screw when it comes loose, you don't want to lose your screws. You could spend more time looking for lost and dropped parts than it could take to make the actual repair. Sometimes you'll find it necessary to actually disconnect one or two of the electrical connectors so you could get some more movement out of the terminals. Sometimes the wires will limit just where you can move into and how far you can get them out of your way. In this case it's just simply not enough, so I'm going to disconnect a couple of these connectors. On older vehicles like this sometimes the connectors could be quite difficult. They get dirt and heat and wear and oil deposits and they just don't simply want to slide apart easily. So just hold the connector release end and gradually wiggle them and they will slowly come. You don't want to try and force them or break or damage them because a damaged electrical component can be hard to repair and hard to find replacement parts. Ok, I think we've got it far enough out of our way. Please watch our next segment on the removal of a heater hose."