I'm in the middle of getting my dash off to replace my heater matrix, and it's all free apart from the main loom coming in from the engine bay.

Now the reason I haven't yet removed this is that for the life of me I cannot get it the connector to "split" as it supposedly should.

I've removed the bolt from the middle of it, but it's not coming apart at all. How exactly are you meant to split this? And how/where does it actually split?

Any help is much appreciated!

Yeah I've got both the hex plastic cap and the torx metal bolt out of the middle of it.

From the engine bay am I expecting it to come off as one whole piece, or should it split into 2 pieces on this side of the bulkhead?

From memory the engine bay connector stays in one big piece, i know mine have been seized on both cars that i've tried splitting it on. I cant remember if theres a knack to getting them apart or if its just a bit of forceful wiggling until they seperate, being careful not to strain the wires.

Good luck

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Goldie the track car.

You can leave the matrix pipes outlet pipes alone. Just remove the matrix box - I think just 2 bolts that secure it. Just replace the 2 internal seals with the new matrix.

Haha don't even get me started, been on it since Monday (albeit a bit on and off, including a whole day off following a football injury ), so far problems have included:

- Found out bottom pulley has slipped and there's rubber pieces sticking out of it so pretty sure it's knackered (Alloy pulley on it's way from Rich W after you're recommendation)
- Clamp between cat and scorpion centre section has bent and thread has been stripped
- Manifold to cat clamp is also bent and very corroded
- Top rad hose found to have a split in it, yet another accident waiting to happen..
- Loom connector wouldn't split and matrix hoses wouldn't come off
- Matrix has leaked loads of coolant and gunk inside the blower and vent systems
- Cambelt looked incorrectly fitted as there were areas of tension and slack along it, I believe caused by allowing slight rotation of the cam pulleys as they are tightened up.

I'm sure there's more, and the head hasn't even come off yet. In fact I'd be better of with a progress thread which I was waiting for the new site to do, but I may finally get round to it tonight!



Oh right, I was considering giving it a try without removing the pipes but finally I managed to get them off late last night before I had a chance to see this. Thanks anyway.