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Originally Posted by fintstone
All of those tools look like they would be the same as the first one as they will not open to not slide over the wire from the back
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Some connectors are depinned by opening the shell (eg the 14 pin engine harness connector)..
Some connectors are depinned from the rear. Usually it's pretty obvious which ones these are; no tool can be inserted at the front as there's only a blank face with the connector protruding from it.
Others, like this one appears to be, are depinned from the the front. These, you typically relieve the pressure on the latching system (that holds the pin in the connector) by pushing the wire/connector forward in the seat, then the tool goes over the pin and depresses the latch. Then the pin and tool can be pushed through into the connector block, the wire pulled out of the tool and the tool pulled back through.
Gently tweak the latch back into shape if necessary, re-insert the terminal until it clicks (or just won't go any deeper, sometimes you can't feel it lock) and just tug it gently to check that it did lock (I had an intermittent no-start once caused by a crank pickup lead with a Deutsche female terminal that wouldn't actually lock into the shell and just pushed back as you made the connection). Should be good.
Sometimes it helps a lot to have a connector and a terminal to peer at closely before you start.