Hello,

I figured out why my power mirrors do not work, while trying to diagnose a separate issue with the I.O.D. fuse that keeps blowing. The electrical connector between the driver door and cab (hiding in the boot) has a pin that's completely corroded away, both male and female halves corroded completely. Will I could "rig" something to bypass this connector, I'd just assume try to get replacement male/female plugs for it. Short of going to a junk yard and hacking apart a harness, is there a good supply for replacement pins? It would be tough for me to get a a junk yard.

I have a suspicion if I go to the dealer, they will just want to sell me a whole new vehicle harness. No thanks, not for 4 cents worth of parts. And with the way the junk yards are around here, they likely won't let me start hacking up a harness either. That being said, I could likely start hacking off many plugs, as the pins are likely used throughout the harness (e.g. not specific to this one connector).

 

Dealer should have the pins laying about loose.....

 

Ok--I'm usually a bit "gun shy" about calling dealers, thus I hadn't done that yet. That, and this is the first brand of vehicle I've had to deal with unsealed electrical connectors (a bit disappointing). But, the sound of the cummins makes up for it!

 

As I suspected, the first Dodge dealer told me they don't carry anything like that but could sell me a whole new harness no problem.

I stopped by in person at a second Dodge dealer (we only have 2 local), and they told me to walk across the street to the Chevy dealer. Huh? So, I walked over to the Chevy dealer and got an even stranger look from their parts counter guy. But they did in fact have an assortment of pins etc.... Unfortunately, they only had an exact replacement for the male side of the connection and didn't have the female portion, so I am still hunting.

 

Try here, http://dto.vftis.com/mopar/disclaimer.asp

 

Thanks--I had run into that one during my search yesterday, but it's rather cryptic and appears that you must know ahead of time the part # etc... you are looking for. And it only seems to offer some repair pieces, not the individual pins I'm looking for.

Some google searching resulted in a possible clue found on this very board (Dakota subforum) suggests the pins are fci apex 2.8mm connectors. But doing a further search on FCI (company) and Apex (line of product) does not yield much useful information. For instance, any photos of Apex items online are simply too small to I.D. if anything is actually the same or not.