Radio Bulb Roadmap (1 Viewer)

[Chris Wilcox]

I have one bulb burned out in my 1997 radio and after some searching was unable to find good pictures of the insides of an OEM radio. So I bought a spare one and took it apart to find out what is going on in there. Call me crazy but I like my stock radio. Plus I figure this should be easier than the D light replacement.
Pictures are self explanatory. Red circle identifies a semi-hidden bulb with green sleeve. Some are LED's.

 

[Chris Wilcox]

 

[Chris Wilcox]

Somewhere on my truck it says radio will not work if removed. Anybody have details on that?

 

[canman]

Bulbs are burnt on mine as well, but I have a LX. I had mine apart recently and it is completely different from what you have. All the bulbs I need to replace are soldered to the circuit board.
I also started a thread to identify as many bulbs as possible, but the one you show is one I haven't seen before.


https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/massive-bulb-smackdown.816564/

 

[landcrshr]

...after some searching was unable to find good pictures of the insides of an OEM radio.

Perhaps you missed this in your search: https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/fixed-the-cd-player-and-lcd-backlight.742399/#post-8576891

I like keeping the stock unit too, all it needed was a little tune-up.

 

[Chris Wilcox]

landcrshr: Nice writeup. I was using the wrong key words apparently. Either way it is nice to have light.

 

[landcrshr]

Thanks.
Since the writeup, I found a Radio Shack bulb to replace the one I robbed from the CD-eject button position. It works OK for that location, but not bright enough for the display backlight.

 

[Kernal]

Something like two dozen lights, anyone have a list with part numbers?