Saturday, April 21, 2012

Putting in a custom stereo deck

Tools you need:
  • Philips screwdriver
  • Wire snips
  • Wire stripper
  • Butt connecters
  • Utility knife
  • Sharpie
Stuff you need:
  • Stereo deck
  • Wiring harness adapter
  • Antenna adapter
Taking out the old radio:
  • Take all the screws out of the dashboard
  • Take the volume and tuner knobs off the old radio
  • Put the truck in neutral and pull the dash off
  • Put the truck back in park
  • Now you wanna take the support bolt out of the old radio and disconnect the wiring harness, remove the old radio
Prepping it for the new radio:
  • Take the new radio and put it over the old radio hole and mark the size with a sharpie
  • Take the utility knife and cut on the inside of the line (you might have to make a few passs with the knife until you cut through)
  • Take the dashboard with the hole cut in it and loosley put it on
  • Then take the sharpie and measure where to cut the hole in the metal on the dashboard
  • Grab a cut off wheel or a dremel tool and cut the hole out of there
  • Now take your wiring harness adapter and wire up the radio to it, NOTE: the radio plug and the adapter have the same color wires, so just match the wire to the right color and butt connect them
Installation:
  • Put the dash back together minus the radio
  • Once its all tightened down, plug in the new wiring harness
  • Plug in the antenna adapeter
  • Slide the radio in
  • Try it out :)
P.S. This isn't the most proffesional way to do it, that's just how i did it

1 comment:

  1. Need some visuals to help us out. Add some multimedia content to this blog to make it more interesting. Diagrams, youtube tutorials, pictures, etc.

    Some analysis might be nice, too. (Beyond just the one quick sentence in your P.S.

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