66 C10 Rewire questions with American Autowire kit - 500560

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Originally Posted by msg

I did buy the Amazon crimpers and returned them after trying them out. I hated to do it cause it was half the price of the 2 I need from AAW and they offer way more crimp styles. The reason I returned was trying to crimp with them on the test connectors that AAW had in the kit was more difficult for me than the AAW ones.

The AAW approach is to crimp the 2 prongs individually like you see in the videos. The width of the AAW crimper head of the tool is about half the width of the Amazon tool allowing me to target one crimp at a time. The amazon kit is designed to have the exposed/stripped wire crimp and the sleeved wire crimp to lay on the tool and crimp at once, but to do that the tool designed so wide that some connectors were too tricky, in fact I mangled 2 of the male connectors that were in the test kit trying to make it work. I took a side by side of the tool heads which also showed the crimp barrel space is taller in the Amazon tool, the AAW is shorter which I would think makes for a tighter crimp. Ill attach the pic, the blue handle is the Amazon tool on the left. I thought I took a comparison pic of the straight on comparison of the jaws so you could have see the width of the heads but I didnt.

Im still trying to get to actually wire things up, hopefully tomorrow.

Thanks the pictures shows perfectly what you are talking about. I will end up buying an AAW crimper....at least I only need 1.