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Ok to start out I was excited over getting the correct wire harness for my 73 vert. I had everything back in the dash on the bench and was down to the AM/FM radio. I had already cleaned and painted the surround and the radio was in place. I has two plugs on the radio as shown in the pictures. I found one two post plug that has a small lug and a larger lug that plugged in. Looks like it is for the light and maybe the power feed.
I did a search of the site but did not see any info that worked for me.
The other plug has 5 wires, blue with white hash, orange with green, pink with green line, pink with blue and white with green.
There is no place in the harness to plug in. The radio came out of a 72 parts car and I had another 73 vert there that has I know a working AM/FM. So I pulled the radio out and it was a total mess of cut and splice wires and was different than the one I was trying to use. What does the proper plug look like and where does it come from? There are no cut places in the harness. Does it somehow hook up to the auxiliary connection on the fuse block? I have the 5 pin connector from the donor car but do not know what to hook the wires to?? I assume the two grounds for speakers hook to one of the plug wires and the right and left to their own plug but have no clue where to hook the other two wires. The wiring diagrams are no help to this old guy I need a simple picture of diagram for just the radio. I have the two wires going to the door speakers.
Could it be the radio I have is set up for front and rear speakers in a later model Ford? If so that would be ok since the PO had put kenwood speakers in the rear side panels.
I don't want to put the dash back in until I have all the wiring done and the radio is the last part of the puzzle.
Thanks for any help. I head back to the shop to work and have no internet there and will be late tonight back here. If some answer in the next hour would get me putting the dash in today.
Wish you could download this stuff to my brain.
David
I did a search of the site but did not see any info that worked for me.
The other plug has 5 wires, blue with white hash, orange with green, pink with green line, pink with blue and white with green.
There is no place in the harness to plug in. The radio came out of a 72 parts car and I had another 73 vert there that has I know a working AM/FM. So I pulled the radio out and it was a total mess of cut and splice wires and was different than the one I was trying to use. What does the proper plug look like and where does it come from? There are no cut places in the harness. Does it somehow hook up to the auxiliary connection on the fuse block? I have the 5 pin connector from the donor car but do not know what to hook the wires to?? I assume the two grounds for speakers hook to one of the plug wires and the right and left to their own plug but have no clue where to hook the other two wires. The wiring diagrams are no help to this old guy I need a simple picture of diagram for just the radio. I have the two wires going to the door speakers.
Could it be the radio I have is set up for front and rear speakers in a later model Ford? If so that would be ok since the PO had put kenwood speakers in the rear side panels.
I don't want to put the dash back in until I have all the wiring done and the radio is the last part of the puzzle.
Thanks for any help. I head back to the shop to work and have no internet there and will be late tonight back here. If some answer in the next hour would get me putting the dash in today.
Wish you could download this stuff to my brain.
David