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For all you electrical gurus. If you splice a wire so that you can extend it, how do you get the two ends to make a connection again. Meaning, cut a wire in half, now there is a 2" gap between the ends, how do you get them to connect to eachother again. Must be weather proof. Thanks guys.

 
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Use wire taps. They have two grooves for each wire to fit, then you clamp down a metal piece and wrap with tape. Or just wrap the wires around each other. Electrical tape is pretty much fine if you wrap it well enough.

 
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so that will fill the 2" gap? and where can you buy these wire taps?

 
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any auto place. They are called wire taps or splices. They're maybe an inch, but what do you mean fill the gap? If you just need to connect wires together but they're not long enough, you need to buy extra wire and splice it to each end.

 
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be sure to soder them though

 
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so buy extra wire to connect them. ok. thanks for the tips...now i need to find out what wire to buy.

 
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meh only thing I've soldered are radio wires. My car is an electrical nightmare

 
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i solder everything.. it takes like 2 seconds and its fun melting stuff..

just about everything in our cars is 12gauge wire.. you can get that anywhere..

 
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the ecu wires are terrible and tiny with no room to work. I could barely tap em.

 
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in yer case its understandable... since you have moded every part of yer car that noone would ever think to mess with.. im waiting for you to put a cannon in the trunk

 
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na too heavy my car will get slower. :")

 
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Solder and tape, clips are stupid, and depending on where you live they can rust out, or corrode....Solder and Tape, just pracitce, nothing to it.....

 
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Solder and heatshrink.

 
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telly telly telly, I was just bout to say that.
Splice, pig tie, solder, heatshrink. Do on both sides and your done.

Soldering is a MUST for any electrical work, no point taking risks in the future and trying to troubleshoot bad wiring.

 
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What, are you following me around now?

 
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i am...

*rubs crotch*

 
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Um...ew.

 
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neh ! just a stroke of luck...
if anything I made the first reply on that El sighting thing :P so i'm not following you.

 
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Would you LIKE to follow me? Just follow the trail of pungent smoke clouds...

 
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yeah buy some wire at pepboys or something use a good set of wire dykes strip about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch off both existing wires, cut about 3" for the middle piece, strip the 1/2 inch off both side of that, now spread the ends of all 4 pieces into v or t shape, twist them togeter with the existing wires, solder, and tape. done.