hello I have a problem

[bbcoolbreeze]

Hello all it is nice to have found a website all about explorers.

I have a problem and hope someone out there can help me. I purchased a SONY CDX-GT330 stero for my 2004 4x4 explorer. I could not find a wiring connector fot the stero, so I decided to hook it up myself by splicing into the wires from my factory wiring harness. So I got out the Haynes manual and looked up the wiring diagram for the radio and cut the wires for the new radio from the harness and spliced the together after all the wires i needed were hooked up I turned the key to the acc position and the radio works great. I then started the truck and found that the gas peadal has no function what so ever. with a little investigation I think the problem is the wire that is connected to the pcm, it is behind the radio and connected to nothing. Is there a way to bypass this so that I can drive my truck? If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate the advise.
Thanks
Brandon

 

[Sams01XplrSprt]

welcome

 

[mrboyle]

Don't have an answer for you, but I can tell you its becoming harder and harder to eliminate the factory stereo's in anything as they are intergrated into the BCM.


Oh, forgot to say Welcome!

 

[BrooklynBay]

Welcome to this forum! Check WWW.The12Volt.Com.

 

[DMacLennan14]

re-hook up the factory connector and get the wire harness. metra makes one for your truck. it will be part number 70-1771 or 70-5521. the part will depend on the audio system you have in your truck.

 

[bbcoolbreeze]

I have hooked the radio back up and got the proper connector from best buy $23.99. Any way this did not solve the problem, finally got ahold of a friend of mine who came over with a scanner and found that the throttle actuator was stuck in the closed position. It apparently had nothing to do with the radio but who knows. Anyway replaced the whole throttle body as you can not buy the actuator seperatly and now the truck runs great.

Thanks
Brandon

 

[BrooklynBay]

Thanks for the update!