Mike, I know why you have those 2 odd-ball connectors in your parts kit.
You're in a time loop.
You've been doing this fix for an eternity.
At some point in one of your past loops, you decided you needed those connectors, and you put them there yourself, so you could find them in this loop and exit.
Well that's my theory, and I'm sticking to it
PS: thanks for the teardown.. Since you finally exited the loop, we got too see it.
Pretty cool video!