Installing radio
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Installing radio
I have a 1977 Ford F150 351m engine. I am having difficulty installing a new radio. Not sure of the wiring. The diagrams dont offer much help I you dont know how to read them. I am trying to install a stock Honda stereo into my truck. I have the harness or adapter for it. Just don't know which wires I am supposed to hook up. The wiring in my truck is so messed up. Can somebody help?
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I have a 1977 Ford F150 351m engine. I am having difficulty installing a new radio. Not sure of the wiring. The diagrams dont offer much help I you dont know how to read them. I am trying to install a stock Honda stereo into my truck. I have the harness or adapter for it. Just don't know which wires I am supposed to hook up. The wiring in my truck is so messed up. Can somebody help?
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The OEM radio was powered by a GREEN 2-terminal pigtail. YELLOW with a BLACK stripe is switched power, BLUE with RED stripe is dash illumination. Do not mistake the BLUE with RED stripe wire for ground. The OEM radio grounded through its mounting chassis. The speakers were connected over a separate pigtail.
Ok I looked behind the glove box and found a connection the goes off the green and yellow. GREEN with YELLOW stripe wiring is hot-at-all-times power for the courtesy lamp circuit. Use that. There is a 3-connector pigtail behind the glove box (which also goes on to power the cigarette lighter).
It's not the stock radio wire because the stock radio didn't need hot-at-all-times power (EXCEPT the factory digital AM radio for clock memory).
solid black—power blue with red stripe--dial light black with gray dashes—ground orange with green dashes--right speaker white with green dashes--left speaker
Assuming an AM/FM stereo and stock wiring harness'.
Purple is ground, right speaker is white and left speaker is orange.
Ok I looked behind the glove box and found a connection the goes off the green and yellow. GREEN with YELLOW stripe wiring is hot-at-all-times power for the courtesy lamp circuit. Use that. There is a 3-connector pigtail behind the glove box (which also goes on to power the cigarette lighter).
It's not the stock radio wire because the stock radio didn't need hot-at-all-times power (EXCEPT the factory digital AM radio for clock memory).
solid black—power blue with red stripe--dial light black with gray dashes—ground orange with green dashes--right speaker white with green dashes--left speaker
Assuming an AM/FM stereo and stock wiring harness'.
Purple is ground, right speaker is white and left speaker is orange.
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