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66 charger radio install

happyjackdaddy54

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I was trying to install a stock radio in my 66 Charger. Two green wires which are speaker wires. A red and orange L shaped connector for the power. I can't find the connector out of the harness. I looked to see if it has been cut off. No signs. Any ideas about how to power the radio? Also, I need a speaker now.Where is a good place to get one?
 
sounds like you don't have a stock Charger radio....sounds like you got one for a Coronet

Charger radio has 2 green wires, one red power wire, and one white lighting wire out the passenger side of radio

Bryan
 
sounds like you don't have a stock Charger radio....sounds like you got one for a Coronet

Charger radio has 2 green wires, one red power wire, and one white lighting wire out the passenger side of radio

Bryan


X2 I've never bothered to research the Charger high voltage dash lighting, but here are some clips out of the 67 shop manual. In the diagram showing the radio, X12 off to the left is red, goes to the radio fuse in the fuse panel.



The 18 white wire going off the page to the right goes to the next diagram showing the oscillator, second wire down, the connector there at the junction of E3A and E3B

So somewhere up in there should be a single connector with red, and a second connector with two whites. That is HIGH VOLTAGE dash lighting, do NOT hook a radio with an orange 12v lighting to that connector!!!!

Now if you are going to try and use that radio, and need 12V lighting, you need a shop manual, or at least a good diagram. You have one? The headlight switch on a Charger is DIFFERENT, that is, the dash light (inst) outfeed from the light switch does not feed ANY 12v lights. All it does is feed 12V power to the high voltage oscillator. If you can find and tap into that 12V supply, WHICH IS the E2B buss shown there at the oscillator, that will get you "un dimmed" 12v that will come on and off with the light switch. You will either have to play with a resistor inline to get the 12V radio lamp where you want, or else play with "less bright" bulbs, perhaps even 24V bulbs
 

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headlight switch for the charger is no different than the Dart or Coronet of that year...

he can tap into the 12v side of oscillator or the fuse box and will have dimming light in radio as well

PS: do not use a 67 wiring diagram for a 66 Charger..they ain't the same

Bryan
 
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