I purchased a 92 Ranger XLT (regular cab) and the previous owner cut the factory wiring harness leaving bare wires in the dash. I am attempting to find out what wires correspond to which on a different radio system.

I do have one radio working but when I turn on the headlights the radio dies (the display goes dark but does not lose the time)

I attempted to install a radio from a 94 ranger but the adapters wiring from that radio to mine do not correspond.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

All i can reccomend is to go to a junkyard and see if they have the same type of truck. Cut the harness off that truck, leaving enoungh length of wire to connect to yours. Then just match up the colors. Other than that, I dont know what to tell you.

 

I found this discussion in the archives when I was trying to figure out the wiring for the radio in my aerostar. They might be the same as the one in your ranger.

Here's the link:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/a...ic/102380.html

Hopefully that will help.

 

crap, the link didn't work....

I found the paper i printed out... here are the colors and what they do to the best of my knowledge:

green - memory feed
black - vehicle chassis ground
yellow/black - radio power feed
light blue/red - panel illumination
orange/black - radio display
black/light green - radio ground

orange/light green - left front speaker +
light blue/white - left front speaker -

pink/light green - left rear speaker +
tan/yellow - left rear speaker -

white/light green - right front speaker +
dark green/orange - right front speaker -

orange/red - right rear speaker +
black/white - right rear speaker -

Hope that helps you.

 

Thanks drahgon,

I'll give it a try, I had one from another ranger (94) but I think I might have fried that radio
now going to try after market radios and see what happens.

here goes something I hope

 

Try this thread:

Wiring Diagrams


Look about half way down. There is a pic of the wires and plugs. If your wires are the same color - there is the list. If they are different colors, let me know and I can try to match the wires up for you.

 

Thanks cobraxp

That's the plugs. The black match exact, the gray differs slightly.

Left to right Yours

green
black
yellow/black
light blue/red
orange/black
black/light green
empty
empty

Left to right mine

Light green w/yellow stripe
empty
yellow/black
light blue/red
orange/black
black/light green
red
empty
empty

when I plug in the speakers plug (black adapter) heard "sound" like speakers being powered. I then plugged in the black, the tape deck attempts to kick in - but nothing.

This entire time there is no display at all. 15 amp fuse is good (replaced MANY times )


I was going to try a radio from an 89 mecury topaz figuring lincoln ford mecury - but if I can get the ranger one running (Had great sounds) I'd prefer that one.

Thanks again cobraxp

 

Used a cheapy - (pyramid) radio (the one from the original posting with the headlight problem.

can get display (clock) hooking up as follows
the radio's memory (pink) to truck's green w/ yellow stripe,
radio's red to truck's black with yellow stripe,
and black to black

 

Thanks for the info tempe, however the "factory" wires that the installdoctor site shows doesn't match my Ranger.

It says a purple wire for the left + speaker, I have no purple wires in my dash. Nor any blue wires. Granted the site does give the "disclaimer" that ford changes wire colors even on identical years and models.

I do greatly appreciate the help though.

Oh BTW the first link in your posting
http://://www.partsexpress.com/pe/ps...number=265-653 results in a 404 error

you just need to remove the extra :// from the post before the www


I'm gonna get this truck a radio yet without having to pay someone else to do it : P

 

I posted that PDF document trusting that the information is valid. I have had a few complaints about it, so I'm thinking of taking it down. I have been having problems since the beginning of that tutorial w/ partsexpress.com links. For the meantime, you can copy that six-digit part number from the bad url and simply paste it into their website and it will bring up the correct page.

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshow...number=265-653

Tempe

 

Thanks for the compliment. Feel free to do as you wish with that link. In fact, feel free to bookmark my link page as many more informative links can be found there, too.

Tempe

 

Ok I give up on the factory wiring

I reinstall the cheepy radio (boy can you tell) (2x 25w) I at least now have tunes.

The main problem installing it was the acc/run power that should be coming from the engine, supposed red wire, mine is black with a green stripe has no power through it. This is with the engine off, on, or in acc. I went and bought a digital multimeter thinking my cheapo multi wasn't functioning properly - but same results.

Anywy the only way I could get this to install was to run the radio's power to the always hot line the radio memory wire was connected. I just have to remember to shut the radio off when I get out of the truck.

I'd love to be able to hook the original wiring up but I realized I don't even know what the original radio/wiring was (premium/non-premium sound)

anybody happen to know what came standard in a 92 ranger XLT regular cab truck? Or any idea how to find out what came installed in this truck?

Thanks for all the great help/advice/and links.