raider1qaz

Well i changed my head gasket on my 1996 honda civic last week and accidentally pulled to hard on the Coolant temp sensor that's under the distributor and wires got disconnected, and i cant just tape them together because the wires got yanked out of the plug.Any advice??

CX-Adam

Search on here about re-pinning plugs and try to re-pin it.

Or, go to a junk yard, cut a plug off another 6th gen civic, and swap your de-pinned plug out. All it takes is a wire cutter, wire stripper, solder, flux, heat tape, and a soldering gun.

HondaPartsHero

Is it the single wire sensor or the round two plug sensor?

B_Swapped93

going to a pick n pull is a lot easier than trying to re-pin and solder(trust me) i ripped my vss plug apart so i went to the yard and found one. then taped the wires toghter(after stripping them back 2 inches) workd fine to this day.

raider1qaz

my junk yard here all the civic they had the engines were all gone

strategy400

Same exact thing happened to me and I took the plug to my friendly neighborhood Honda dealership and the parts guy disassembled the plug at the counter, went in the back and came out with new pins for the plug (even gave me extras). No charge.
Took everything home and some wire strippers and a few crimps later my plug was like new again.

HondaPartsHero

strategy400

The plug will stubbornly come apart if you pry at the rubber inside piece for a bit with a very small screwdriver. Something to do while you're watching TV.