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"Guerilla" way - easy, pull as much of the wire up out of the pickup hole as you can, cut it there, and solder the new pickup wire to it, insulating the join using tape or heatshrink. This is not the "proper" way, no - but it's electrically identical and if you do it well there is no problem.
NB:
1 - Be absolutely sure not to let go of the wire, or it will disappear back into the guitar! Best to clamp it in some way. (A croc clip works well.)
2 - If you possibly can, don't cut the wire less than an inch from the old pickups, or it will be very difficult to reinstall them if you ever want to.
3 - don't cut the new pickup wires short, coil them up and hide them under the pickups - you might want to use the pickups in a different guitar one day.
I know a lot of people will tut at me for recommending this, and I would absolutely not consider it for a professional job, on a good quality guitar, using good quality pickups. But otherwise, I'm happy to - it's massively less work and doesn't carry the risk of messing something in the loom up and having to have the whole lot out again...
(mart beat me to it! )
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Cheers lads.
If the new pickups have 4-conductor wire it becomes slightly more complicated, ask!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Another couple of neat tricks relating to getting the jack back in are to use a knife blade jammed sideways into the threads to stop the jack falling back in while you put the nut on, and to use a taper reamer jammed into the jack to stop it turning when you tighten the nut.
I always use a drop of superglue to stop the nut ever working loose too - if you use a decent quality jack you're unlikely to have to change it in the foreseeable future, and if you really have to you can break the glue by heating the nut with a soldering iron (but mind the fumes!).
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein