2 wires into one, y connector?

[70Uglybird]

I'm in the process of cleaning up some dash wiring and putting in Molex connectors for my Speedhut gauges. I'm running across a couple of items where two wires have been stuffed into a single spade with a ignition powered wire on the other side. I could splice a the two together into one wire then go to the molex connector but was hoping for something cleaner. I found these which make no sense because they are not insulated all the way?

http://www.waytekwire.com/products/1436/X-Y-Connectors/

What do you guys do in these situations?

[mitch_04]

I solder and heat shrink into one wire. Put heat shrink on each individual wire and then over all of them.

[ChevelleNV]

If your not going to solder the connections try using these http://www.waytekwire.com/item/38267...TEP-DOWN-BUTT/ I use them all the time and they work great for going from one wire to multiple wires. crimp it and then put some heat shrink on it.

[aaron@easyperformance]

If your not going to solder the connections try using these http://www.waytekwire.com/item/38267...TEP-DOWN-BUTT/ I use them all the time and they work great for going from one wire to multiple wires. crimp it and then put some heat shrink on it.

This is a great option for keeping things compact and neat. You can also find insulated versions of those butt splices which work just like heatshrink and are a bit more convenient.

[TheJDMan]

I have switched all my terminals to heat shrink insulation. Those step down butt connectors are the way to go.

[70Uglybird]

Sweet I'll order some up for my dash wiring project! Thanks!

[MonzaRacer]

I like them but when crimping wires I use my ratcheting crimpers with the dies for weather pack, the ones that fold them over like stock type crimps, I am also the guy who takes the plastic off, never crimps flat, I solder and shrink tube as much as possible. You can make those if you have good steel rivets, and good rivet gun then I like to move wires as needed then solder the connection where its riveted too.
Guess its time to do my basic electrical video as I have been planning.
Had one of the "electrical" gurus, that makes harnesses call me everything in book for wanting to crimp, solder and shrink tube, says it isnt needed.
Buddy had this guy install their product, then I had to go through and redo many connections, and I soldered then all and put a small repair kit in car.
The guy who made the harness said soldered connections break, but as Itold my buddy at least my work its much easier to find bad wire and Irarely have issues, his trans brake wire broke on line as it had been pulled too hard when removing trans, lucky him , on line, other guy puked water, he had no t brake, pulled wire from fuse block, grabbed tools and terminal, crimped new one on while track got cleaned up, installed it and ran and won that race.
THIS has been only failure he has had in 7 yrs, other than cheap fuses corroded in the fuse box, had to go to local napa sore and but big assortment of fuses as he didnt know what he needed ($90 assortment then won $5k,,,,he was happy).