BoneStock99
CEG'er
I know its not rocket science but is it really that difficult to remove the glue holding the electrical connector to the housing? I chipped at that plastic glue stuff around the electrical connector for two hours with a gasket scraper, a razor knife and a wood chisel. Stupid thing won't budge not a thousanth of an inch.
Someone in another thread a while back said that the glue holding the connector to the housing was there as a weather seal. That's no weather seal - the little bead of silicone under the cover is a weather seal. That giant mass of glue around the electrical connector is there so that future civilizations will know how stupid we were. They'll go on archeology expeditions and dig up non-working IMRC boxes and marvel that a 1.5 inch circuit board is held down with five screws and that the electrical connector glue is designed to survive nuclear armageddon yet the transistor fails on every single car ever made. You could tunnel your way out of Alcatraz with a pocket knife before that thing comes apart. Maybe they should have made the IMRC transistor out of that glue and it wouldn't friggin' fail. Sunroof gears too, should have made them out of whatever that plastic glue is, then my sunroof would still work. And passenger side speakers.
Seriously, is it really that difficult to get the electrical connector apart from the housing or is the IMRC on ~my~ Contour like every other friggin' thing on this car, some wierd part that they only put on Contours between lunch break and quitting time on May 3, 1999? SVT calipers with some pads no one has ever seen off some Mercury, ten different kinds of fuel pumps depending on how drunk the guy was who put the fuel tank in the car. Oh, and make exactly one spare part for every part on the car and stock it in the middle of friggin nowhere like North Dakota where no one lives, except for the turn signal switch - yea, make like ninety thousand of those. That'll be good. Yea, that's a great idea.
So... how do you chip away at that stuff without stabbing yourself in the hand with a chisel?
-Tim-
Someone in another thread a while back said that the glue holding the connector to the housing was there as a weather seal. That's no weather seal - the little bead of silicone under the cover is a weather seal. That giant mass of glue around the electrical connector is there so that future civilizations will know how stupid we were. They'll go on archeology expeditions and dig up non-working IMRC boxes and marvel that a 1.5 inch circuit board is held down with five screws and that the electrical connector glue is designed to survive nuclear armageddon yet the transistor fails on every single car ever made. You could tunnel your way out of Alcatraz with a pocket knife before that thing comes apart. Maybe they should have made the IMRC transistor out of that glue and it wouldn't friggin' fail. Sunroof gears too, should have made them out of whatever that plastic glue is, then my sunroof would still work. And passenger side speakers.
Seriously, is it really that difficult to get the electrical connector apart from the housing or is the IMRC on ~my~ Contour like every other friggin' thing on this car, some wierd part that they only put on Contours between lunch break and quitting time on May 3, 1999? SVT calipers with some pads no one has ever seen off some Mercury, ten different kinds of fuel pumps depending on how drunk the guy was who put the fuel tank in the car. Oh, and make exactly one spare part for every part on the car and stock it in the middle of friggin nowhere like North Dakota where no one lives, except for the turn signal switch - yea, make like ninety thousand of those. That'll be good. Yea, that's a great idea.
So... how do you chip away at that stuff without stabbing yourself in the hand with a chisel?
-Tim-
