iPod plug in trunk missing retaining nut - any ideas on where to find one?

[Cjhmedic]

Help! I was cleaning out my truck on our 2010 Can Am Spyder RT Limited. The plug that the iPod cable connects to is missing the retaining nut (I think that is the name) I went to the dealer and asked about it and they could not find one. Anyone have any ideas on where we could find one? Here is a picture of the plug.
Thanks for all and any help that is given.

 

[djh3]

Boy that may be tuff. If its like automotive world, you probably would have to order the entire cable assembly. Yo may find a nut in the electrical section of hardware store that would work. I would try a plastic one, as if the threads are not exact the plastic would give up instead of buggering up the connector. If your just trying to kind of hold it in place, maybe an O ring stretched over it would hold it. Conduit nut I think is what they call it.

 

[Br549rick]

radio shack

 

[racoon]

My brain went in 2 directions.

1) The picture doesn't show what the actual connector/pin layout looks like, but from approaching it from the year and iPod connection, it's probably a 7-Pin DIN connector. Some place like Radio Shack (if you can find one) may have something, although you might have to buy an entire socket and then just use the nut. I don't know if a hardware store would carry something like that, but I've found weirder things browsing through the hardware bins at Lowes. Take the iPod cable with you so you can test fit it to the socket.

2) I don't know how it mounts, but I assume the cable is behind a panel, and the socket threads extend through a hole in the panel, and them the nut screwed onto the threads? If so, you might be able to get away with holding it from the back and then wrapping some wire a couple of times around the threads to hold it in place. I'd then use a little bit of blue loctite to hold it in place. I would not use the "permanent" type of loctite.

 

[djh3]

Lock tite on abs plastic is not good. It melts the plastic and deteriorates it.

 

[racoon]

Lock tite on abs plastic is not good. It melts the plastic and deteriorates it.

I didn't know that.

Maybe a touch of epoxy, then?