Re: Putting newer radio in earlier truck Wiring??
[Re: screamindriver]
#144886
11/06/08 11:44 PM
11/06/08 11:44 PM
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volaredon
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The easy way out would be to go to a local stereo shop or a place like Bestbuy,Crutchfield etc... and have them get you the adapter wiring kit{10-20 bucks}...It'll have the connectors that will plug into the unit and the color coded wires as well as a wiring diagram showing what needs to be done...  Here's a link to the crutchfield site.... link
Close but not quite; that will be a female plug designed to plug an aftermarket radio into a factory harness; what he'll need is to go to a junk yard and cut the 2 plugs off the wiring harness designed to plug into a factory radio; about any Mopar late 80s til about Y2K will have these--if someone didn't remove the radio and cut the plugs alrady--- and make a new harness yourself starting with those plugs; a soldering iron+heat shrink tube are your friends here with a factory service manual; there are different color wires used over the years they used that style plug but usually the FSM will give a diagram that shows which pin has key on power, power all the time (memory/clock), dash lighting circuit, speaker position and polarity; the positions of each of these feeds in the plugs, are the same over the years even with changing wire colors over those years. DON't jury rig the splices; you'll have intermittent open circuits where things will work, cut out upon hitting bumps, come back next RR track, etc. No twist/tape, Scotchloks (those are the WORST) butt-crimp connectors; solder and tape, or use heat shrink tubing.
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Re: Putting newer radio in earlier truck Wiring??
[Re: volaredon]
#144888
11/07/08 10:35 PM
11/07/08 10:35 PM
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Harrisburg, Pa.
screamindriver
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The easy way out would be to go to a local stereo shop or a place like Bestbuy,Crutchfield etc... and have them get you the adapter wiring kit{10-20 bucks}...It'll have the connectors that will plug into the unit and the color coded wires as well as a wiring diagram showing what needs to be done... Here's a link to the crutchfield site.... link
Close but not quite; that will be a female plug designed to plug an aftermarket radio into a factory harness; what he'll need is to go to a junk yard and cut the 2 plugs off the wiring harness designed to plug into a factory radio; about any Mopar late 80s til about Y2K will have these--if someone didn't remove the radio and cut the plugs alrady--- and make a new harness yourself starting with those plugs; a soldering iron+heat shrink tube are your friends here with a factory service manual; there are different color wires used over the years they used that style plug but usually the FSM will give a diagram that shows which pin has key on power, power all the time (memory/clock), dash lighting circuit, speaker position and polarity; the positions of each of these feeds in the plugs, are the same over the years even with changing wire colors over those years. DON't jury rig the splices; you'll have intermittent open circuits where things will work, cut out upon hitting bumps, come back next RR track, etc. No twist/tape, Scotchloks (those are the WORST) butt-crimp connectors; solder and tape, or use heat shrink tubing.
Nice link 78d150... ... The crutchfield site is hard to navigate, but you can actually get pretty much any harness you need...Radio plugs to coded bare ends...Vehicle connectors to bare ends.... You can even get a harness that will plug a late model radio into an earlier vehicle if you need one...Plugs at both ends...I've bought a few like that already...If he gives them a call they could hook him up...Takes the service manual and the guess work out of the process...
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