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- Roy Washington
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- 1983
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Well, I asked if anyone had done this and I got no response. So I pulled out my stereo and did it myself.
My truck is a 99 and it just came with the basic radio and cassette player. I opened it ip and found that on the cassette player it had 4 wires that attached to the circuit board that said RR RL FR FL. I made the assumption that these were for the speaker channels.
I got some small wire and soldered it on to front left and right. I they got a 3.5mm female plug in from an old boom box and attached the wires to it.
I had to make a dummy cassette tape to put in while I use the MP3 player but it works just fine.
I can still use the cassette player, it works like normal still.
The only issue I have with it is that because the inputs I found were pre-amp I had to turn my MP3 players volume all the way down and adjust the EQ a little. I installed the plug in in the front of the dash next to the radio so no wires are hanging out of the dash. Just plug it in to the hole.
I did all this in about 2 hours with my son (16 years old) and it cost me nothing. I will add some pictures later today.
My truck is a 99 and it just came with the basic radio and cassette player. I opened it ip and found that on the cassette player it had 4 wires that attached to the circuit board that said RR RL FR FL. I made the assumption that these were for the speaker channels.
I got some small wire and soldered it on to front left and right. I they got a 3.5mm female plug in from an old boom box and attached the wires to it.
I had to make a dummy cassette tape to put in while I use the MP3 player but it works just fine.
I can still use the cassette player, it works like normal still.
The only issue I have with it is that because the inputs I found were pre-amp I had to turn my MP3 players volume all the way down and adjust the EQ a little. I installed the plug in in the front of the dash next to the radio so no wires are hanging out of the dash. Just plug it in to the hole.
I did all this in about 2 hours with my son (16 years old) and it cost me nothing. I will add some pictures later today.
