I have never been too happy with the spade connectors used for the brake and clutch fluid reservoirs - I thought it looked unfinished. I tried to search for the correct connector for the reservoir online, but could never seem to find one. I did eventually find one that was nearly correct....
AMP 926470 is physically correct, however this is for 3 connections rather then the 2 that I have - and all other reservoirs I have seen have. I ordered 4 of these along with the correct terminals which fit in the housing in an attempt to make it work.
I initially tried modifying the new connector to house 2 terminals rather than the 3. By doing this the terminal lost it's ability to clip in correctly. This was a no go.
The only other option was to trim down the terminals inside the reservoir connector. The original connectors are 6.3mm wide, but because I had to trim the connector so a phantom 3rd would fit in the middle, these needed to be trimmed to around 5mm from the inner side only. Using the Proxxon, I carefully trimmed each terminal until the new AMP connector could fit in. I repeated this for all 3 switches.
I then crimped the correct terminal onto the wires and fitted them in. Quite a lot of work just to make the connector look as if it should be there!
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