Aye - I forgot about that stuff - Sorta like silly putty. I used some of that to pack some of the connections at broken conectors.

The injected stuff is a yellowish tough plastic stuff - took forever to peel it off the few shielded wires I did not destroy.

After thinking about it, I recall the way to seperate the two pieces.

THere is a rubber boot on the female end inside the black housing. Remove that. You can then pull the white plastic insert downwards but only as far as the slack in the wires. Ergo the problem I noted earlier - Very little slack if any.

One option is to split the entire black house along its molding line with an exacto knife. If successful, you would have that part in two halves, the wires (fuesed by plastic and putty) and white connector. To reassemble, you would have to glue the housing back along that line. If you fail, time to hit the junkyard. My suggestion if your going to live with a DIY harness, its time to junkyard dive for several connectors. I am pretty sure they are the same for the 280-320 series.


By the way - did you rebuild your ETA harness as well?

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