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Hey guys, my car's PO left me with a junky aftermarket CD radio that would never work right unless you shifted it around in the console, and when it did it would rarely play on all 4 speakers. I was very excited to find a factory Delco radio out of a 1990 Buick wagon in the junkyard today, I grabbed the harness with it and it wired right up to my Camaro! The radio sounds great but the cassette needs work (won't play tapes, just engages the auto-reverse, new belts?), but I have a bigger issue- the radio is only playing out of the front driver's speaker. I swear I was able to get all 4 working for a bit, but not sure why it stopped. On the bright side that one speaker doesn't cut out like it did with the old radio :P

Has anyone ran into something like this before? What's some things I should check? In the morning I'm going to look at connections (which i made sure were snug when I installed the radio!), speaker connections, and contacts in the fade selector in the radio.

Drew

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Probably bad solder joints internally. The fix back in the day was to throw it in the salvage pile and try another one.

87v6Bird

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https://www.a-body.net/forums/showth...thumping-noise

It's most likely the caps as detailed in that post. I fixed the radio in my TA by replacing them.

LiveIt!

Thanks and that guide is amazing! I do have some static in the right front and everything in rear is dead. I'll look into replacing the caps, thanks

DynoDave43

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Holy cow...A-body.net. I used to be on that forum daily. Didn't know it was still around.

87v6Bird

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No problem. Just make sure you take pictures before you desolder anything. The polarity is important on caps and I nearly messed that up.