C101 or whatever the firewall connector is called - pin removal

[jtrux]

I'm trying to do a little final clean up and wanted to remove some of these wires and replace a few. I was playing around with a skinny awl and it felt like it would work but decided to stop and ask for advice before I messed something up. Anything advice on cleanly removing this wires?

 

[Cucv_M1008]

I used a pick and pushed in the tang and it came right out with the wire and everything.

 

[JT88K5]

Like you thought. One side of those terminals should have some space to insert a pick or tiny flat screw driver. Push the wire into the block from the engine side, insert pick on the terminal side and it should come out easily. I just cut the unused wires leaving ample wire ( if I need to use it down the road) then stuck them in a piece of wire loom that goes nowhere on the firewall. I didn’t want to remove the pins and leave a hole in the connecting block. I had 4 wires that were unused in total after removing the factory tbi harness and installing a PF4 FI. This was on an 87.

 

[JT88K5]

I see I hit the submit button a bit late. Glad you were able to work it out.

 

[Cucv_M1008]

I see I hit the submit button a bit late. Glad you were able to work it out.

that's my photo, the second one, OP has not responded yet.

 

[HankScorpio]

Get some of these pin tools for less than $10. They are real handy