Radio speaker update: Success!! Well, sort of…
So last time I said I bought two cheap speakers of the right dimensions so I could adapt them into the dashboard of the 87 Missing Linc. I didn’t lie, I did buy 2. Since one of them actually arrived, I could verify it would fit in there. Now I’m in a battle with the Chinaman to get the second because I ordered a quantity of “one,” and the ad said speakers”s” and “pair” 100 times. I ordered a quantity of one pair Anyway, I proceeded with the one I got for the one that that’s dead in front of the driver.
You guys know how long winded I can be, I’ll try to spare you. Couldn’t get the new speaker to work, checked the wires, tapped into the OEM wires behind the radio plug, pulled new wires, and eventually cut the OEM wires an inch behind the plug and connected them there. And more. No joy. All my left right forward back balance and fade, etc. are all working properly.
Finally, I pulled that eight pin plug out of the back of the radio. The plug is the female and behind the radio is male - they’re tiny spades. I modified a couple of spade connectors to work on something that small, and I connected that one speaker directly to the back of the radio.
Yeah, a one speaker Radio!
I debated if I should put grab handles on the side of the truck before I tried it so it would be easier to grab the whole thing and throw it over the fence. As daylight faded, I turned on the radio and heard it from that one speaker. Praise God in heaven, and eternal thanks for His glory across the Earth, and in particular my radio one speaker!
I say success, because I isolated the problem to that eight pin plug, but now, how in the heck do I fix that? I locked up the truck with all my tools in it and came inside, and shortly thereafter just went to bed exhausted. My current thought is to drill a couple tiny holes through that plug so I can feed a wire and fan it out across and fold it over the female plug connection. Somehow, I have to straddle that plug when I figure out which of the two wires is the bad one. I already looked, a plug online would cost more than the whole radio, AND it only pulls forward enough to be perhaps 1 inch past the plane of the dashboard, so very hard to work on in the opening.
But brothers, I tell you seriously today, as long as there is air in my lungs and a beat in my heart, that radio will work, and the shed of miracles will be clean!
(you can contact the cute little brunette for the funeral arrangements. Initial thoughts are I will be in the back of the truck with the one speaker going, and then my ashes will be spread over the piles in the shed of miracles.)
