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What the OP is experiencing is very likely not a connector issue. There could have been a soldering issue generating a bunch of heat at the connector, but I have seen even the cheap Chinese Deans hold up to a fairly heavy load. The amp draw is only going to ramp up briefly on heavy loads to the...

61A 🤣🤣🤣 Grey's gonna hate me for that, but I am a Dean's hater so 😜 But yeah, the original Deans are a lot better than the Chinese ones. I went to look on Deans' website, but the website is not there anymore, unless there is a different one @Greywolf74 https://www.wsdeans.com/

All that should get you going. I would suggest you go small on the pinion until you get the temp checked. It doesn't take long to fry something when electronics overheat. No time at all.

You NEED a temp gun in this hobby. They are like $9 and up on Amazon.

If you wanna go cheap on the electronics, go to jennysrc.com and just grab the BLX system from the Senton. Kind of late to be asking this, but do you have the 2wd or 4wd Senton?

What all is different from the Mega to the BLX besides the pinion and spur? There are other things that determine the final drive ratio. Are the tires the same diameter from the Mega to the BLX? Are the differential ring and pinion gears the same?

My guess is your ESC overheated and went up in smoke due to the crazy gear ratio you are running. It likely got so hot it desoldered the cables. Again, it was likely hotter at the main body of the ESC, unless you had bad solder connections causing heat to build in the wires. And again... get a...

So you went from a 5.35:1 to a 2.85:1 gear ratio. That is a huge difference that will generate a lot more heat in your motor and ESC. You will want to take the ESC temp with an infrared temp gun, and aim it at the main body of the ESC. That is were the heat generating components of the ESC are...