wiring A probe light is the easiest way to check to see if you have power. Very portable and cheap. I know where Renton is. I just thought that maybe you were in the Vancouver area, and then I could help personally. Chuck
Okay I think I have it licked. When I put the black test probe to the black (ground) wire and the red probe to the yellow, it read a little over 14v. When I switched to continuity and checked black to black and then red to the gray wire, it beeped, so I guess that is the lighting wire? If you are ever in the area, I'd be happy to have you take a look. I'm saving my pennies to try and make this car look nice again. I don't know if its worth dumping money into since its got alot of miles on it. Oh well.
To replace the last few wires on this thing, I need to pull them from the fusebox. I have the wiring diagram, but the 3 wires i need to replace are wrapped up in a 1.5 inch diamter mass of wires going into the fuse panel. Does the fuse bos come out without disconnecting everything to make this easier?
wiring Why are trying to remove wires from the fuse box??? If you're looking for a 12v lead, just splice into the existing wire.
Smartin said that he ran all new wires, and I just figured I'd do that too. But in order to do that, I'd have to pull the existing gray, black, and yellows(2) from the fuse box. I guess I could just splice into the existing 12v. The problem is that there are two power wires, do I just splice into both of them. They were coupled together into one connection that plugged into the AM radio, maybe they were like 6v each.
wiring No idea why there would be 2 wires. No, they could not be 6v ea. If both wires ran into one connector, then the easy solution would be to use a connector to plug into that connector, and splice your CD wires to the newly attached connector. Does that make sense?? I believe in 76 they still used the male/female type connectors. You can get these types of terminals at an auto parts store if you don't have any.
There is a constant power source for your memory, and a switched source for turning the radio on and off with the ignition. EDIT: Didn't read carefully enough...these are the 2 yellow wires in the car? Have you done the volt meter check on both of them yet with the key on and off?
Ok, I'll clarify this here. The connector I'm talking about plugged into the back of the 8 track. It had four wires, black, gray, and two yellow wires. There were only 3 connections on the front of the plug. It was a female connector and had three holes. The two yellow wires read around 12v when the ignition was on. They read nothing when the car was off. Now, After I cut the plug out to store it, one of the yellow wires read the 12v and the other didn't read anything, it just kinda jumped around. I was using a radioshack autorange multimeter. I'll have to look for that plug at Schucks.
I snapped a few pictures for ya. I a few of the pictures, you can see a red wire coming from the 8track. That was not plugged into anything when I removed the radio, and the radio was working when I removed it. Maybe it went to a power antenna motor, which my car does not have. I don't see it on the wiring diagrams.
