good day everyone GarageKing here and this morning I got a comment from a
viewer on how did I connect my connectors when doing my oxygen sensor
test most recent video I just posted was this oxygen sensor one so if you haven't
seen that one I'll throw up the link so you can see that one but let's get to it
firstly what I do when I'm testing all of my connectors I have made up a bunch
of things like this this is to avoid using alligator clips so there are
different types of automotive connectors this one here you can see it's just it's
almost like a pin it's very narrow these things here slide on and there's a whole
bunch of different ones so why did I even do this for example say you want to
hook up the white wire in this one so here's the white wire we are holding the
wire so I would look to the rear of the connector there's where the white wire
goes I know it's that one right there and then now I have my little pin I can
put in just like so yeah if I get it in right it should go there we go and now I
haven't stretched I haven't damaged anything and I can connect this to my
multimeter so that's how I make all these little things here
similarly so you want to check in ABS sensor this one was for ABS so break one
there are some light you can see we got some light there so how the heck are you
gonna connect those connectors well there you go I made up these little
small things you can get at your automotive store and what they are is
it's the female end of the connector you can buy a lot of these connectors and
then you just crimp them on so now what I can do is I can go inside and just
connect it just like there I'm just angling it I want to show you all there
you go and it's actually connected on so you
can see there you go so now you can put your own meter on on this one if you're
checking for continuity put an alligator clip connected to your multimeter
however you want because it's really hard especially if you have a deep
connector to get alligator clips and be really really hard to get alligator
clips in this connector now for the one that
on the actual video itself this was the style of connector so you can see here
I'm going to zoom in there is a style of connector so to check the resistance
what I did is I hooked up the two white wires and that was to check the heating
circuit so we can see the two white wires are on the top follow them so we
know it's gonna be this one and this one maybe I'll throw up an arrow because my
fingers in the way there you go let's throw up an arrow and another arrow
there so now what we can do is if we look say you don't have those connectors
and you want to try with an alligator well it's not the easiest thing to do
there we go let's get back in screen so so you want to try with an alligator
clip it's not the easiest thing to do here's an alligator clip and here's the
size of it so technically you could you connect an alligator clip and you can
see there it's hanging on and it's not touching but you got to be careful
because we're getting we're getting really close and actually I can touch it
there I'm feeling it touch there because I'm not touching the body of the
connector so you can see it's touching there so what I did for this test when I
was connecting them is I wanted to check the two white wires so I took my trusty
little things that I made up just like this I don't know what you ever want to
call them little connectors and I know the white wires are on top so I plugged
one in just like so there we go and you can see it's plugged in just like so
hanging and that one goes to one white wire and now I'm going to get another
one so here's another one and if we look in here I'm going to connect it if I can
this might be a bit of a smaller one let's see if I can connect it in there
we go and it's on I'm zoomed in so that's why sometimes I go to the screen
just a wee bit but so there you go so now you can see they're both on the
white wires so now let's pan back so we're zoom back
out but you saw what I did there's a two white wires and now these are held like
this now how do we connect them to the ohmmeter
here's the problem and maybe this is what some of you viewers saw
these can't really be connected unless you physically hold them so I could
physically hold this one physically hold this one like this and then we should
get a reading on our own meter right there and you can see it's climbing up
and it's what it was on the last video there you go
close to 11 ohms or right around lebanon's so that's fine but what I did
you saw alligator connectors so all I did with the alligator connectors was I
just connected just like so and I let it drop and hang and then I connected here
now I should say too when you're measuring the resistance so the two
white wires it doesn't matter which ones which
it doesn't matter as long as you have them both connected it really doesn't
matter so I'll just rest that one right there if we can and then here's the
other one so what I did is I took the connector just like so and then I used
an alligator cook to join it now the problem is I did not have a short
alligator clip so I had this and maybe I can pan back but you can see it's quite
long it's gonna actually have a little bit of resistance and that's why I sped
up the video there because it's I was kind of fighting with it a bit but all I
basically had to do just so I didn't hold it is I just wanted to connect this
part here to this part here there we go just just so I wouldn't have to hold it
that was a big thing I just didn't want to have to hold it and then I sort of
just let it drop and if you see the resistance there you can see there we
are we're right close to our 11 ohms there you go 11 ohms so that's how I
connected it all up and then when I wanted to do the other part of the
oxygen sensor all I did to look at the black and the gray wires is I just
pulled them out so I can zoom in again like so and see if we can focus there
you go so all I did is I pulled it out and just went on the next one just like
that so I just changed it over then you'd pull the bottom one out here if
you want to call it that and I would just push it onto this one and then
there now we're on the black one and the grey one so that's all I did there to
change it so yeah hopefully no one was confused with the last video but that's
that's all I did to to hook it up and then obviously now
that we're on the black and the the black and the gray sorry black in the
gray we would have to just change to voltage and then you'd be heating it
with the flame and you'd be producing a voltage so that's all we would be doing
but yeah that's that's it for this video just just to clarify a few things this
and I guess the biggest thing is these things here I love them what I made
because I can use them for all different types of connectors and it's it's it's
really really good because sometimes with alligator clips everything is
popping off so with these things it is really really easy to use I made a whole
bunch of different sizes you can see there's sort of a spade connection I can
poke into something and then I have like I showed you earlier this one this one's
actually really handy because it goes into very very small connectors I have
these which are a little bit bigger so just just a wide variety of assortment
of different types of connectors and you can see I'll pull these ones up close
there we go drop those these are actually different sizes so you can see
depending on depending on the type of connector you have so I just got a bunch
of random ones and then whichever one fits obviously if one's a little bit too
big it doesn't matter as long as it fits in there okay it's better than alligator
clips so that's how I connect connectors when I'm doing all my electrical tests
so hopefully I like the video I'd appreciate if you'd subscribe very hard
to grow a small channel on YouTube these days and I aim to please so I try to
answer everybody's questions and for this viewer I've actually made a special
video just to go over it in detail just to show you how I connected all the
connectors to the multimeter to show how it all worked so this way everyone's
clear, anyway that's it for now everyone have a great day and see you on the next
one