Got it!! Just plugging in at this point. Should be all good as long as there are no funky wiring from previous owner.
What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (93 Viewers)
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Looks like a nightmare. I just did my stereo and it was much cleaner wiring so you may just need to splice…bummer
Seems pretty straight forward as long as I keep my head wrapped around the colors.
There is an extra harness in the 80 that was not plugged in when I started. Not sure what that’s about…
Stereo wiring can be such a pain. I had a bunch of stuff unplugged from a p/o which I guess in the end was good that they didn’t just splice into the harness. As long as the stereo is quality, the color coding should match, it’s pretty universal.
It is a Kenwood so it is very easy, just trying to clean up previous wiring mess. I took out a cb that was not working and found it was a cheap fuse holder that failed the cb. So I may keep the cb just need to mount it in a different place. It’s a honker of a devise.
The 80 has two wire harnesses because some vehicles got the upgraded stereos with the powered amplifier and extra speakers. Pretty common for Toyota back then. They sounded like hot garbage even when new but you could say look at all those speakers! People can hate on modern cars but one thing we got was much better sound systems in most vehicles. Killed the aftermarket stereo market though.
Done!!
I am a few weeks late but I broke the 300,000 mi mark on my way to Courtright reservoir a few weeks back.
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I’m a Toyota tech I always save those things. At some point the tube size changed so now I need to start saving a damn tube just in case.
Diving in to the PO wiring job to fix and clean it up
What terminals are those? I need to do this.
Vgate battery terminals on Amazon
These are great! They really clean up the battery box
Damn!!!that looks great, I love that color.
What color is that? Looks amazing
Never mind you answered before I could hit "Post", but it looks really good.
