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Injector Connector -or- Wiggle the Wires We have an expression around the house: "I had to wiggle the wires a couple of times today." This refers to the fuel injection electrical plugs on the squareback's distributor and each of the injectors. We've experience various problems with them over the years--corrosion, coming loose, etc. Makes the car hesitate and run *really* poorly--until you hit a favorable bump in the road (lots of bumps here in Michigan) or hop back & "wiggle the wires" until it's running right again. At a recent VW swap meet, somebody had a (mostly) complete injection system from a late T3 for sale. I picked up the distributor which had the axed-off connector in place in the socket of the trigger contacts. I pulled out the connector: Wow! What a tight fit. Unbelievable. Our '71's trigger contact connector (along with most of the others) was held on primarily by the rubber boot. I figured from this example at the swap meet that we must have had worn plastic connectors as our major problem. A couple of weeks later, on a Friday, Kirsten said that she had to "wiggle the wires" a bunch of times that day, & the car was running very poorly. The next morning we all piled in the car to drop her off at work at The Farm & have a look at the pair of newborn goats (...as long as we've been talking about dwarf goats here on the T3 list: The Farm got a single male dwarf goat donated to them a number of months ago... and now there are a *bunch* of pregnant non-dwarf female goats. They had figured that the dwarf goat was just too small... they've made an appointment with the vet. Anybody need a goat?). Anyway, the car ran crappy the whole way to the farm. After our pancake breakfast & a visit to the goats, I "wiggled the wires" before Em & I drove off; the car ran like a champ. We went to go pick mom up from work later in the day, and the square was unhappy again. When we got to the farm I wiggled the wires... AND ONE OF THEM BROKE! #4 injector, actually. Uh-oh. Made it home on the remaining cylinders. (Figured it musta been about 3.2 cylinders, as I wouldn't be surprised if my injectors leaked...) Popped open the engine cover, and found the second wire on the plug to be hanging on like a loose tooth. Yanked the whole thing off to take it inside & have a look at it on the kitchen table. The electrical connectors inside the plugs are just *very* slender conventional (spade?) connectors, as you'd find on your fuse box. They're held in the plug by a metal flap that pops up when you install them--kind of like the fish hook principle. What finally worked to get 'em out was to take some 20 gauge wire ("bailing" wire? "baling" wire?) and bend it into a U shape, make the radius a bit tighter by squeezing the U with some pliers, then push the tight U into the plastic plug to push down the little flap on each female spade connector. They slid right out! I went about my repair crimping & soldering & insulating the connectors back to the wiring loom, but before I slipped the electrical connectors back into the plugs I gently squeezed the back end of each one so that it would fit a bit more tightly. I checked the fit on a spare injector--awesome! Like new! It was beginning to grow dark as I finished my repair, but it was still light enough to do the connector-crimping trick on the trigger contact connector. Beautiful. Wow! It just took a couple of minutes to remove each connector from the plug in turn and gently squeeze the back end tighter just a tiny bit. Hope this helps somebody...! -Greg '69 & '71 Squarebacks '63 Beetle