1996 Ranger Radio swap help!!

[whtailhunter319]

1996 Ranger Supercab, AMFM Cassette, removed Factory radio and went to put in aftermarket radio and cannot find info or correct harness adapter. Radio number is partially missing but what i can make out is "****-198183 **" or something to that effect if that helps. Connections the back of the radio is the flat/long conector with the power and ground. Other is Square 16 pin. Found a scorche connector that will fit the small square but it only has 8 pins in the connector. The adapter that i do have from scorche says i need to use there inverter??? Is there an amp to bypass? If so where and how? It never fails i find the odd ball. Anyone had similar issue? Ive installed alot of stereos but never ran into this before. Any help ASAP would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Ranger SVO]

Metra is showing only one plug for the Ranger, the number is 70-5600. In the unlikely event your truck has an amp (not likely) the plug would be a 70-5603. However Ford amps can handle hi level input so the 70-5600 will still work

 

[whtailhunter319]

OK got it working. Found the amp behind the pasenger side rear speaker. It would not accept the hi-level inputs. I printed a wiring schmatic and just cut the AMP out of the circuit and tied them into corrosponding wires. Worked beautiful. I could not find a harness to bypass the AMP at AUTOZONE,WalMart or ADVANCE. But fix was easy enough. Thanks for any puts. As im not much of a Ranger mechanic(although im getting lots of experience) im sure youll see other posts in the forum trying to pick peoples brains as i work the bugs out of this bad boy...