OK...maybe not truly automotive, but motorcycle. My youngest son has a Honda VT1100C2 v-twin cruiser, 2003 model. The wires from the stater that pass under the seat to a connector and then down to the rectifier (or whatever you call it) have burned in two. The first time I fixed it (it had already been repaired before) I cut out the burned connectors/wire and crimped on new connectors and connected the wires together again.
This lasted for a few months and then just this week it happened again. I checked around the "net" and some say that this is not a strange happening with these bikes and is a common break/fix. The wire coming from the stater is like an 18 gauge wire and is the same gauge wire going to the (well....I need to go lookup what it's called....BRB...).....ok it is called a regulator/rectifier.
In my past electrician days, if a wire heated up....it was because the wire was too small for the load it was carrying. Here, the wires only burned where the connectors were.
I was trying to solder the wires today by tinning then first and I simply could NOT get solder to stick to the wires. I cut the wire back a short bit and stripped back a little and still the solder would not stick to the wires. Does this require the wires to be clean as in like new condition before the solder will stick well?
How does one typically spliced 2 wires back together in an automotive type setting? I'd like to fix this on a more permanent type repair.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Educate me....I'm not proud nor bashful.....so I'm asking.