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Stereo wiring 86 GL-10

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Some nice thief cut the wiring harness of stereo taking plug of stereo unit and mating connector. I have a another radio with a plug and another female connector to splice on to main harness. In reviewing the colors they don't match to wires on harness. If I have the colors that mate I can have a direction to go. Can someone help me out as I can rearrange them to work ( Ihope !)

Some nice thief cut the wiring harness of stereo taking plug of stereo unit and mating connector. I have a another radio with a plug and another female connector to splice on to main harness. In reviewing the colors they don't match to wires on harness. If I have the colors that mate I can have a direction to go. Can someone help me out as I can rearrange them to work ( Ihope !)

Rog:

Sorry about your loss...hope you get a chance to confront the person responsible some day (a thief's worst nightmare!!) .

I usually start by probing the bare wires independently (without the aid of a schematic). You can use a simple "light bulb tester". Just attach one end to the harness wire, and the other to chassis ground, and try various key positions. This will identify your hots pretty quickly.

Then I usually break out the schematic, and verify the hots. For the speaks (if they are still there), you can rig up a homemade tester out of any radio with a speaker or headphone output. Referring to the schematic, you should be able to send a signal to each of your speaks.

 

By process of elimination, you'll be able to identify ground, and any other leads. You may have a power antenna on that model.

 

If you run into any probs, or need the schematic,email me.

good luck, John

thealleyboy@yahoo.com

 

Here is a copy of a post that was from Subarutex about the same thing.

 

Was just looking through FSM today to find this stuff. Here is the info:

 

L - Blue

B - Black

Y - Yellow

G - Green

R - Red

W - White

Br - Brown

Lg - Light Green

Gr - Gray

 

Ignition power source - LY

Ground - B

Positive right front - W

Positve left front - Y

Ground right side - LB

Ground left side - LR

Positive right rear - WL

Positive left rear - YW

  • 11 months later...

I looked all over the web, bought a $20 Chilton's manual. I still couldn't figure out those speaker wires. Then I found this Message board! My new stereo and speakers sound great!

Thanks guys.

the green wire will be hot all the time for memory

 

the suabr has a common ground speaker, so on the aftermarket radio you will hook up the +left front, the+left rear, and only one of the grounds from the radio will be used, so the left sude front and back share the same ground, the right front and back share the same ground

 

so you will be using the front left- and the front right-, the other rear - wires will not be used

  • 2 months later...
Here is a copy of a post that was from Subarutex about the same thing.

 

Was just looking through FSM today to find this stuff. Here is the info:

 

L - Blue

B - Black

Y - Yellow

G - Green

R - Red

W - White

Br - Brown

Lg - Light Green

Gr - Gray

 

Ignition power source - LY

Ground - B

Positive right front - W

Positve left front - Y

Ground right side - LB

Ground left side - LR

Positive right rear - WL

Positive left rear - YW

 

Does NOT correspond with 1986 spec GL-10 wiring.

 

*searches more*

Connector, Stereo side (probably 1986/earl 1987 Spec)

 

Left Side Ground- Yellow

Right Side Ground- White

 

RF- Yellow/Red

RR- Grey

LF- Yellow

LR- Yellow/Black

 

 

Connector, CAR side (1987 RX)

 

LS Ground- Blue/Red

RS Ground- Blue/Black

 

RF- White

RR- White/Blue

LF- Yellow

LR- Yellow/White

 

 

There...lol

 

I just got done wiring in my Pioneer MP3 headunit. Yay!

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