Spaceboy1980

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I was swapping out my late model delco that was installed by a PO with another that had mounts. When I pulled it out I found a wiring mess and some snipped and wrapped wires along with butt connectors and twisted and wrapped wires with bare wires poking out. Anyone have a wiring diagram for this mess? I need one for the chassis (90 Camaro) and the radio (99 delco unit).

Coyote850

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http://www.the12volt.com/installbay/...etail/483.html

I had a newer radio in my '83 and wanted a stock radio put back in. I used this site and was able to get the stock radio put back in. This will give you the stock radio diagram. You may need a different adapter/plug for the delco radio. You can find the adapters/plugs on ebay for around $5.

Spaceboy1980

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Thanks for that link, that will help me a lot.

Spaceboy1980

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Just got this sorted out. I had completely forgotten about it until I was swapping out my HVAC vacuum switch.

What I found was:

The illumination was tied to the ignition wire, the ignition wire had part of the insulation stripped off and the illumination wire threaded through it and wrapped in duct tape. It is the top connection in the picture above, was quite amazing under the tape.

The wire for the illumination coming from the car was taped up with duct tape and had bare wire poking out.

Only the front speakers and the ignition wire had any kind of wiring connectors, the rest was just twisted together and either duct taped or electrical taped.

The left rear speaker had the polarity swapped.


I ended up using butt connectors to put it all back together. I normally would have soldered and heat shrunk it, but I was afraid of damaging my console with the iron. There were so many bare wires poking out of tape that I'm surprised the car didn't burn down, what a hack job. ><

Ozz1967

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That's a perfect example of someone either not knowing what they were doing or just too lazy to do it right. Glad you got it sorted before it became a fireball on the side of the road!

Sn0wm4n

I am having a similar issue, I pulled out a non working alpine deck which appears to be quite old and I wanted to put in my very nice kenwood deck that I bought last year. Unfortunately the wiring is a mess as well. There are wires not connected to anything, wires spliced to different wires. Does anyone have a stock wiring diagram for a 1983 camaro berlinetta?

jwfirebird

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http://www.the12volt.com/installbay/...etail/482.html

S.O.T.I.

Still doesn't really help. I have 14 wires on the replacement harness I bought, and only 13 wires coming out of my dash. That diagram offers a bit of info, but how am I supposed to interpret "Antenna-right front"? Splice the antenna wire to the right front?

I don't get it. Frustrated.

S.O.T.I.

Plus, I have 14 wires to connect on my new harness, and only 13 coming out of the dash.

jwfirebird

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pink is the ant wire, right front is just the place on the car, like where it says dash speakers and rear deck. and you dont always use everything, some hu's have amp wire separate from ant. depends what each has

alex722607

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I had a similar issue. I removed the dash and spent 2 weeks replacing all the individual cut wires with new ones out a 2002 firebird dash harness. I redid the factory butt splkices, and where there were terminals, I purchased those seperatly from clipsandfasteners.com

I have absolute faith in my harness now, no electrical issues whatsoever.

Do I recommend it, well only if you like or are good with wires.

S.O.T.I.

I figured mine out. I printed a wiring diagram and using it plus the diagram supplied by the replacement harness, I got everything wired up correctly. Some wire colors matched, most didn't, but it's all good.