I recently ordered a new radio for my car and I am going to have to crimp the wires from the new radio with those from my custom wiring harness. I am a little confused with how crimping works. I will be using insulated butt connects. When the two wires are pushed into the butt connector from the opposite sides do I crimp in the middle where the wires are touching? Or do I crimp both ends of the butt connector? I'm just wondering if the wires will be completely connected if I just crimp the ends of the butt connector. Please help!
go buy a crimping tool first. it will do a much better job. and yes, crimp at both ends. look inside the connector and you will see the metal in relation to the plastic. you want to crimp the metal about half way from the center.
Push the wires in from each end and Crimp both ends
you crimp each end, roughly halfway from the end to the middle of the connector. crimp it hard so it doesnt pop back out.
