Will an s14 KA alternator plug work on my s14 SR alternator?

[Globe891]

Basically my alternator light came on...further inspection is that the wire to the plug got ripped right at the plug, so it would be damn near impossible to reconnect the wire

So, can i splice in an s14 plug to work on my s14 SR20det alternator?

[Mikester]

Yes. It's the same.

[Globe891]

awesome, just wanted to make sure before i went and got another plug

[Mikester]

LOL it's a Nissan alternator plug. Many Nissans have the same one. Since you have to search for a new plug & plan to splice a new one in, you can go ahead and cut the old one out & bring it as your example.

When you splice, make sure you stagger, heat shrink & wrap the splices... and DO NOT splice in smaller gauge wire than OEM.

[jr_ss]

Mike- is that how they told you to solder in the military? I've always been taught to create a Y with the end of the wires you're splicing together and then twist. That way you have more surface area of the wire touch each other vs the one side of the copper touching the other. So, in essence it would look like this <>, then put them together and twist and add solder.

[Mikester]

^^LOL no dude... I meant to stagger each invidual wire's splices so that when you wrap & tie the loom back together, the splices aren't pushing on each other=)

In the military, we don't generally splice using solder- we use environmental splices (barrel connectors w/protective heat shrink tube) then cover it with standard heat shrink & tie it back up... We have a very in-depth book that covers everything from A to Sup and the guidelines for splicing vs. rewiring are fairly stringent... With very few exceptions, all of our soldering takes place in the actual pins at the backs of the cannon plugs, switches or other 'hard' points. Solder is brittle by nature; and in aerospace applications, much of the wiring is exposed to very harsh extremes of temperature & vibration... so we rarely, if ever splice mid-run using solder.

[jr_ss]

Ah ok, just curious. I figured the military had a specific way of doing it, if at all.

[Mikester]

Yea, we have a book called the Navair 1-1A-14...