While sitting around waiting for a rain squall to pass I decided to tinker with taking apart the EGT probe connectors, I have no idea why anyone would want to take one of these apart.
The tools I used - bear in mind that I'm just a guy in a garage using whatever I have in my box, the drillbit is a #55 not pictured is a razor blade for cutting the heat shrink.
First remove the heat shrink. (For replacement I used 3/4" dual wall adhesive lined moisture resistant heat shrink from a local electronics store)
Next remove the plastic cap on the back of the connector, pictured below is the latch that holds it on and there are about a dozen ways to pop it off.
After the cap comes the seal, easily removed with needle nose pliers or a dental pick.
To remove the orange 'holder' from the front of the connector use the #55 drill (or something of similar size) and push on the orange tab from inside the back of the connector.
Once the orange 'holder' is out of the way the pins can be removed by lifting the tab (the dental pick works well for this) holding them in from the front while gently tugging on the wire from the back.
When finished you should have this...
For reference the pins are much easier to solder regular wire to with traditional soldering methods.
I have no idea why anyone would want to do this unless a rain squall happens to be keeping you from your wood chipping.
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