Brooksie1
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- 1996 XLT
Soooo... the good wife wants to play CDs and the external deck in our '96 XLT has packed it in. I try to talk her into an iPod but no go. So I find a '98 HU on eBay for a good price that has AM/FM/Cass/CD/MP3 and it fits the dash pod. Trouble is, the existing harness has two plugs - 1 is a black 16-pin and the other is 8-pins. Only 5 wires are actually connected to the 8-pin plug and of those, one is ground, one is constant 12v power and the other is 12v switched power. No power is detected in any contact in the 16-pin plug.
Both radios are Ford manufacture, not the MACH or JBL units.
The '98 HU has 2 plug-in ports - one is 14-pin and the other is 20-pin. The eBay vendor is kind enough to send along the 14-pin plug and each wire is imprinted with the connection details but...
The existing dash harness colours do not match the specs I've been able to find on the 'Net. I'm only guessing at the colour combinations for each speaker but I'm fairly sure I must have gotten at least one connection right! Since they're all speaker wires I go ahead and hook up the wires as best as possible including the two power leads and ground. The HU display comes on and all the selectors work just fine but there isn't a single squawk out of any speaker whatsoever.
I am thinking the 20-pin plug might need a power and ground connection as perhaps it supports the amplifier & CD? Do I need to connect some of those pins to the 8 speaker wires? Where can I purchase a 20-pin plug to fit that 2nd port?
I can post photos of the existing wiring harness, plugs and the two head units if that would help?
Many thanks for any help you can provide!
Brooksie
Both radios are Ford manufacture, not the MACH or JBL units.
The '98 HU has 2 plug-in ports - one is 14-pin and the other is 20-pin. The eBay vendor is kind enough to send along the 14-pin plug and each wire is imprinted with the connection details but...
The existing dash harness colours do not match the specs I've been able to find on the 'Net. I'm only guessing at the colour combinations for each speaker but I'm fairly sure I must have gotten at least one connection right! Since they're all speaker wires I go ahead and hook up the wires as best as possible including the two power leads and ground. The HU display comes on and all the selectors work just fine but there isn't a single squawk out of any speaker whatsoever.
I am thinking the 20-pin plug might need a power and ground connection as perhaps it supports the amplifier & CD? Do I need to connect some of those pins to the 8 speaker wires? Where can I purchase a 20-pin plug to fit that 2nd port?
I can post photos of the existing wiring harness, plugs and the two head units if that would help?
Many thanks for any help you can provide!
Brooksie