Ok so I've been rooting around in my 70 tonight looking for the usual dumbass previous owner wiring butchery, and figgered I'd have a go at hooking up a radio while I was at it...( do some dumbassed wiring butchery of my own )
stock radio was there, tape deck wasn't, and the wires to the radio had the plug cut off them, so, I'll probably just throw the mp3 deck from my other truck into it.
question is, whereabouts is the step down transformer located on an 87 bj70 cdn spec? there's no power coming out of the leads that go to the old radio, so I'm figgering the transformers either hooped or unhooked...I'm assuming there was one on this truck.
other thing is, from the factory, should there be ANY 12v leads coming off the lowside battery? there is one wire coming off the 12v pole in this truck, it does look like a factory wire ( factory plugs and clips ) but as yet I don't know what the hell it does.
while I'm on the subject, the only manual I have for this truck is the Max Ellery , which is pretty good for mechanical things, but kindof sucks ass on the electrical side of things.
any good wiring diagrams on the net, or in another manual?
EDIT- found what looks to be a more helpful manual at birfield, takes forever to download tho....
thanks,
ryan
stock radio was there, tape deck wasn't, and the wires to the radio had the plug cut off them, so, I'll probably just throw the mp3 deck from my other truck into it.
question is, whereabouts is the step down transformer located on an 87 bj70 cdn spec? there's no power coming out of the leads that go to the old radio, so I'm figgering the transformers either hooped or unhooked...I'm assuming there was one on this truck.
other thing is, from the factory, should there be ANY 12v leads coming off the lowside battery? there is one wire coming off the 12v pole in this truck, it does look like a factory wire ( factory plugs and clips ) but as yet I don't know what the hell it does.
while I'm on the subject, the only manual I have for this truck is the Max Ellery , which is pretty good for mechanical things, but kindof sucks ass on the electrical side of things.
any good wiring diagrams on the net, or in another manual?
EDIT- found what looks to be a more helpful manual at birfield, takes forever to download tho....
thanks,
ryan
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