Yes, you'll have to hardwire it, probably. The earlier cars didn't have the 2 pin connector for the clock, so it may not have come with your harness. Even if it did, there wouldn't be anything on the car side to plug it into.
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So I would hard wire acc. Power to the blue wire and it would in turn power up the grey wire . Which tells me there’s not power coming from the grey wire it needs power going to it ?
Pump ya brakes; before things get too confusing, understand this: the aftermarket plug(s) are all the same colors, and they match up wire for wire. Gray (& black stripe) are right rear speaker. Blue is for power antenna (should match to pink on the car side). Orange w/ white stripe is for dimmer and should match up to gray on the car side, but isn't necessary. The yellow on the radio side may not match to anything on the car side because the factory clock was in the gauge cluster, not the radio. On later models, there is a separate plug with an orange and a brown for the clock power. You're hardwiring the constant/memory wire (yellow aftermarket to orange factory).
Aftermarket accessory is red, and matches to yellow on the car side.
Aftermarket accessory is red, and matches to yellow on the car side.
Ok Turna I think I gotcha now .I tend to overthink things ! The crutch field tech told me to just hook blue to blue which would mean the blue antenna wire from the aftermarket radio would be going to the grey wire in my original radio harness .some simple tests when I get home from work will verify . Thanks
Now, That I think about it, your blue aftermarket MAY hook to gray. The antenna power wires at the antenna are gray, white, and black; they switched to pink in the later years. Blue new to gray old might be right.
For one I apologize I was callin you turna 😂he’s around here someplace ! I think you’re right I did some tests at lunch time and there is power at the blue wire from the radio for an antenna . The blue wire in the after market harness and grey wire in factory harness do not meet up they are offset when I plug the harnesses together. At any rate I have it temporarily hooked up and it works . Of course my lighter keeps blowing fuses so I have to figure that short out .
No problem. The lighter and dome/courtesy are the same circuit. They can be a bear to troubleshoot.
You’re right funny thing is the dome light is on but the lighter is blown . And after some research I see that grey wire in the old harness is the headlight dimmer wire . Why in hell would the headlight dimmer wire go through the radio ??
.....because it dims the radio lights with the gauges. Some aftermarket radios will have 2 or 3 levels of dimmability (nice one!) when you turn the lights on.
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