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Today on our 2001 Honda Odyssey well be replacing the Hopkins seven pole vehicle connector,
part number 37185. First well go ahead and unscrew the hardware, removing the old seven
pole connector. This hardware may be old and rusted, so it can break, but thats okay because
we have new hardware. Now well just go ahead and take a pair of side cutters and cut off
the wire. Next well take our utility knife, cut back the excess tape and remove it. This
will allow us access to the wiring so we can go ahead and strip back the wiring on the
vehicles side. Next well go ahead and take the wiring from
our seven pole and cut off the wires that we wont need. Well only be needing the yellow,
brown and green wires, however we will not need the four pole plug so we can go ahead
and cut that off. Well go ahead and use the black power wire, but we already have a butt
connector on the vehicles side so well go ahead and cut off the extra, and well be using
the white ground wire with the pre-attached ring terminal. However since we already have
a white ground wire run and a butt connector securing it on the vehicles side, well cut
off the excess wire length. For our blue and purple wire well go ahead and cut them short
as they will not be used in this application.