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More Centre Console – Stereo Installation Done (Mostly)
Created on 2007-05-13 18:07:13
OK so I needed to clean up the console wiring and so I routed the hazard light harness and cigarette harness through the lower hole in the metal frame of the console on the drivers’ side. I wasn’t sure how everything would connect up but it all seemed to work. So, despite the many other things that need doing, I decided to install my stereo.
Having reviewed the wiring diagram I planned to connect the permanent power lead to the purple wiring, the switched power to the green/pink and ground to one of the ground connectors. Using the connectors for the stereo means I need to rethink the wiring of the console light but that will take some more thinking. I wanted to check the stereo out as I bought it a while back and hadn’t even plugged it in.
I used wires from my old wiring harness to match the wires I planned to connect to so that gave me the bullet connectors I would need and I used male & female connectors to join the stereo wires to the wire from the old harness. I did a quick trial run and everything worked, as soon as I remembered to turn on the ignition key, Doh! Since this worked I started to install the holding bracket and found that the hole was about 1/8th inch too small. So I opened it up a little with a Stanley knife and that worked nicely and the bracket fit. After some adjusting of wires I got the stereo to fully sit back into the bracket. It’s a tight fit and the back of the unit presses a little on the heater hoses but nothing too terrible.
Then I did some wire clean up and connected up the 6x9 speakers that I had installed into my speaker boxes and finally got to test the sounds. Sweet! A little more wire tidying up and that will do for the day.
Having reviewed the wiring diagram I planned to connect the permanent power lead to the purple wiring, the switched power to the green/pink and ground to one of the ground connectors. Using the connectors for the stereo means I need to rethink the wiring of the console light but that will take some more thinking. I wanted to check the stereo out as I bought it a while back and hadn’t even plugged it in.
I used wires from my old wiring harness to match the wires I planned to connect to so that gave me the bullet connectors I would need and I used male & female connectors to join the stereo wires to the wire from the old harness. I did a quick trial run and everything worked, as soon as I remembered to turn on the ignition key, Doh! Since this worked I started to install the holding bracket and found that the hole was about 1/8th inch too small. So I opened it up a little with a Stanley knife and that worked nicely and the bracket fit. After some adjusting of wires I got the stereo to fully sit back into the bracket. It’s a tight fit and the back of the unit presses a little on the heater hoses but nothing too terrible.
Then I did some wire clean up and connected up the 6x9 speakers that I had installed into my speaker boxes and finally got to test the sounds. Sweet! A little more wire tidying up and that will do for the day.
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Got some tunes installed and operational. There’s a rats nest of wires behind there but it works.
Got some tunes installed and operational. There’s a rats nest of wires behind there but it works.
Summary of Previous Journal Entries
Showing previous 10 journal entries:
| Title | Date | #Pic | #Cmt | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| More Driving To Check For Leaks & Oil Change | 2007-05-12 | Well today I put the rest of the centre console back in place and got some stickers off with some GooBeGone which works really well. I then got around to actually dr... | ||
| Centre Console – Wiring And Installation | 2007-05-12 | 1 | Well I’ve finally got back into trying to get some things going and tonight I dealt with the centre console and getting the wiring done. It’s been hanging out there for some ti... | |
| Finishing Up The Side Cover – Did The Leaks Stop Test Drive | 2007-05-03 | Well after taking my gaskets for Monday night discussion John thought that the rubber gasket seal was probably OK and that maybe the oil was getting past the bolt. Not sure as ther... | ||
| Getting To The Engine Side Cover | 2007-04-22 | 1 | Today I got ready to address the side cover gasket and hope that this will fix the oil leak. I didn’t get as far as I hoped. Removing the carbs and manifolds wasn... | |
| Getting To The Engine Side Cover | 2007-04-22 | 1 | Today I got ready to address the side cover gasket and hope that this will fix the oil leak. I didn’t get as far as I hoped. Removing the carbs and manifolds wasn... | |
| Transmission Mount Replacement | 2007-04-21 | 1 | So today I got down to changing the transmission mounts – from the nightmare I had with my 77 and overdrive install I wasn’t looking forward to this. I ended up ... | |
| In Search Of Oil | 2007-04-21 | 1 | So I forgot to mention somewhere that I also did a front suspension greasing exercise and found that I had 2 grease fittings missing on the passenger side. I took care of this at S... | |
| Fixing Oil Leaks & Finding New Ones | 2007-03-28 | 1 | Well what I didn’t cover last time was that I seem to have developed an oil leak. As such I figured I’d deal with that before trying to test the carbs out some more. | |
| Back To Work – Fixing Puking Carbs, Again & Near 1st Breakdown | 2007-03-11 | Well it’s been pretty cold until recently and last weekend we were in Chicago for the swap meet so not much activity for a while. Having spent some time on the 77 yesterday in pr... | ||
| First Legal Drive – Filling Up To The “Top Gear” Theme | 2007-02-21 | 1 | Well it was time to make that first legal leap onto the roads and I was finally able to drive the car down to get some petrol – just 2 miles down the road. The car seemed to run ... |
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