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terry paget

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Re: changing door looking motor
« Reply #30 on: 07 August 2014, 20:50:36 »
Hmm. Perhaps you are right. Looking at pic in reply3 there are several wires, and it seems undesirable to cut them all. My recollection is of shoving my arm into the door, groping around for the connector, finding the connector ears by feel, then strugging to press them together and at the same time pulling the connector off the motor. This requires strength in thumb and forefinger I lack.

What I seek is a trick, or a tool, to compress the ears and pull off the plug. Please advise.
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Re: changing door looking motor
« Reply #31 on: 07 August 2014, 21:18:51 »
Quote from: terry paget on 07 August 2014, 20:50:36
Hmm. Perhaps you are right. Looking at pic in reply3 there are several wires, and it seems undesirable to cut them all. My recollection is of shoving my arm into the door, groping around for the connector, finding the connector ears by feel, then strugging to press them together and at the same time pulling the connector off the motor. This requires strength in thumb and forefinger I lack.

What I seek is a trick, or a tool, to compress the ears and pull off the plug. Please advise.
Exactly. :y So bend one of the tabs back(the one that is not trying to be opened by your thumb pressure)And once you have unplugged the connector,Bend it back so when you plug back in you get the click.Ive done three like that now.It is a soft kind of plastic and should not break HTH  :y

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90543.0
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Re: changing door looking motor
« Reply #32 on: 07 August 2014, 21:47:42 »
And for the OP. I used a modified steel wall tie to operate the blue clip. Worked a treat. :y
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Re: changing door looking motor
« Reply #33 on: 08 August 2014, 15:11:33 »
Perhaps I was lucky but with the cable released from the bottom of the door the motor could be lifted far enough to remove the plug.
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Re: changing door looking motor
« Reply #34 on: 09 August 2014, 12:27:39 »
I have been talking nonsense. I found three old door motors and latches in my spares heap, with cables attached. The clips are easy to disengage. With the clips unclipped, as in pic, it is still challenging to pull the connector plug out of the socket, as the three lipped water seal needs a good wiggle to extract.
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Re: changing door looking motor
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