PWM cables: too fragile? what fixes/precautions?

[Mr. Lim]

Bill,

Every year we have problems with seating our PWM cables, whether they are the ones supplied in the kit or ones we crimped ourselves.

This year, 5 out of 6 of our cables running to our Victors failed to work properly the first time we connected them. All 4 of 4 cables running to the Spikes worked fine however.

The difference was our PWM pins were missing the PWM connector on the Victors. All 5 of the cables that failed were inserted improperly. When we removed them, you could see all 3 pins were very slightly deflected in the same direction, meaning they'd missed their holes. Straighten them out, and re-insert the cable. Use as little force as possible to insert the connector, and if you encounter any kind of resistance, the pins are likely missing the connector and are being bent.

As for the actual IFI-supplied cables failing, we'd yet to have one fail other than from broken pins due to repeatedly mis-inserting them. Carefully re-inserting them always fixed the problem.

Hopefully you are having the same problem we are, and won't have to burn a hole in your budget replacing PWM cables!

-SlimBoJones...