Wiring Harness Supplies Options

[Langing]

Toyota has a manual called Wiring Harness Repair, RM1022E, available on-line, wherein they pretty much tell you that if you want to repair a broken wire or terminal at a connector, they want you to buy FROM THEM a precrimped terminal/wire and then splice the wire into your wiring harness. I do not want to have splices (butt connectors) in my wiring harness, and I certainly do not want to pay Toyota prices.

Moreover, being a DIY guy, I want to be able to terminate wires myself.

I have been working on different parts of my 1994 Celica for the past decade, and am just finishing up a total rebuild of the engine, and need to fix a few wiring problems, but I cannot find a source of wiring crimp terminals or crimp tool that fit the Toyota connectors found on my wiring harness.

I have been going around in circles for days now, trying to find a place to grab hold on this knotted ball of string (vacuum of knowledge), and am hoping that someone on this website can step up and give me a definitive answer that leads me back into the sunlight. Surely someone has been in this same situation, right. But try to search for it on this website. . .

[slavie]

Not sure if you had trouble finding the exact TE pin I included the number of: TE 316836, and TE 316838.
DigiKey stocks the smaller 316836:
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/t...48TR-ND/2331081

~$0.10 USD each. Though looks like it's 6000 minimum. Any retailers selling in smaller quantities will have higher price, naturally. Either way, my point is, these are readily available.
Link to TE site, has exact specifications so you can measure against any pin you have on hand if you're not 100% sure:
https://www.te.com/usa-en/product-316836-1.html

The crimper EFI site offers looks like the standard chinese crimper (knockoff of Delphi 12085271) - same thing as Tool-CF3 from Corsa and many others.

Finally, if you're gonna be working with connectors, get yourself a quality de-pin tool. The cheap chinese ones are crap. I once bought an original Toyota replica for $15, which I thought was expensive, but I've de-pinned more pins with that tool than any other I have. Totally worth every penny.

Hope this helps.