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please help
Well i am putting a cd deck in my 79 f-150 and i have it all set in NO PROBLEMS, but the wiring, is strange becasue i hooked it up how it should be, it worked fine but the clock light wont work, then the fuse popped when i turnend my lights on, so like an overload. I trieen ed a couple other ways blah blah and before i do anything stupid to ruin it, i am requesting the help of the experts which would be you guys. My Red wire is my switch ignition and my yellow is my batter lead, black is ground, pink is audio innterupt.
Anyone who has pictures or just knows, like you need to hook this wire to this wire and can explain it in words that'd be great. I just need to understand the wirinng correctly. I am only 16 and i got this truck to restore it. I got the deck free so im putting it in. but the final will be a turn *** once i replace the stuff. Please Help :-)
Anyone who has pictures or just knows, like you need to hook this wire to this wire and can explain it in words that'd be great. I just need to understand the wirinng correctly. I am only 16 and i got this truck to restore it. I got the deck free so im putting it in. but the final will be a turn *** once i replace the stuff. Please Help :-)
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Just use a test light or voltmeter to fing the correct wires.If you are overloading a circuit just run a wire to the unfused side of the fuse block to a inline fuse then to the radio.For the ignition on-off wire find a fuse in the box that turns on and off with the ignition and repeat as mentioned above.I didnt have to use this method but have in several different vehicals.
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A basic schematic found in generic service manuals should be used to identify the wires you need. Remember a major cause of vehicle fires is miss-installed aftermarket sound equipment. If in doubt, the services of a professional installer should be used. Unfortunately some of them are not too professional... 
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Welcome to the site.
In order to help you I need to verify something.
What make/model of CD player is it ?
Btw, Please put the topic in the title of the thread
ie: "Cd Player Installation wiring"
Typing "please help" ......does nothing for others searching titles for... CD Wiring
See post #1 in this thread
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...d.php?t=102632
Now let's that wiring right
You never said where you had run/attached those 4 CD wires to ?
In order to help you I need to verify something.
What make/model of CD player is it ?
Btw, Please put the topic in the title of the thread
ie: "Cd Player Installation wiring"
Typing "please help" ......does nothing for others searching titles for... CD Wiring
See post #1 in this thread
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...d.php?t=102632
Now let's that wiring right
You never said where you had run/attached those 4 CD wires to ?
Last edited by Mil1ion; Jul 12, 2006 at 02:23 AM.
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It sounds like you are grounding the radio through the Instrument cluster ilumination circut. A very comon mistake. When you turn the lights on, the ground is interupted and zap goes the fuse.
The original wiring on the truck is,
Yellow/Black: Radio Power. hot in run.
Blue/Red: Radio Dial Ilumination, hooked to the instrument cluster ilumination circut. (Not used for aftermarket installs.) Do not use this as a ground. (Very comon mistake)
Orange: Left speaker wire
White: Right speaker wire
Purple: speaker ground
If the truck had a mono radio, or no radio at all, you will have to build a harness for the speakers for the doors.
If you need a wire that is hot always no matter if the ignition switch is in run or not, (Such as for Radio memory) you can use the Green/yellow wire off of the courtesy light/convenience circut. If your truck has a glove box lamp, you can tie off of that circut there. If it doesn't you can use the connector located behind the glove box, that would have went to the light, and/or cigar lighter, if it was installed.
And just a word of advice, please don't cut up the trucks harness. You can buy the apropriate pigtails and connect the aftermarket radio to the main harness connectors, without cutting anything. Most aftermarket wiring repair kits have such pigtails that you crimp on that would work for such an install. You can buy them at most auto part stores.
The original wiring on the truck is,
Yellow/Black: Radio Power. hot in run.
Blue/Red: Radio Dial Ilumination, hooked to the instrument cluster ilumination circut. (Not used for aftermarket installs.) Do not use this as a ground. (Very comon mistake)
Orange: Left speaker wire
White: Right speaker wire
Purple: speaker ground
If the truck had a mono radio, or no radio at all, you will have to build a harness for the speakers for the doors.
If you need a wire that is hot always no matter if the ignition switch is in run or not, (Such as for Radio memory) you can use the Green/yellow wire off of the courtesy light/convenience circut. If your truck has a glove box lamp, you can tie off of that circut there. If it doesn't you can use the connector located behind the glove box, that would have went to the light, and/or cigar lighter, if it was installed.
And just a word of advice, please don't cut up the trucks harness. You can buy the apropriate pigtails and connect the aftermarket radio to the main harness connectors, without cutting anything. Most aftermarket wiring repair kits have such pigtails that you crimp on that would work for such an install. You can buy them at most auto part stores.
