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Originally Posted by samcoombes
I was thinking, as the 54 pin i have is a) dead, b) redundant.
Could I not chop the thing off, and solder a 25w D plug on the end of the appropriate cables in the order given in that link? If I did need to put it back, I could just re-crimp?
If so, I could have a go at this tonight as a last ditch attempt!!
Sam
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Your 54-pin plug is truly a mystery to me. It was hanging loose before you began this, so you could theorize that it is not needed. So "harvesting" that plug for your conversion is viable. However, I have history of bad things when I deleted something I did not recognize. Therefore, I would reserve the chopping of the 54-pin plug as a last-ditch solution.
See my other post for sources of the 54-pin plug parts. I would buy those, and then just splice them into your existing DB 25 plug. That way, you have it wired in parallel, and you do not need to worry about finding the male DB25 plug. I would not cut the old plug out of the car, though, because you never know, you might actually need that some day.