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73 Charger radio

Tylor

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I have a 73 Charger and found a factory radio out of another car. My car came with the AM/FM option. But with this other radio it has a different speaker plug than my harness. Does anyone have info on the radio options for these cars??
 
From the Fealer Data Book

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Stereo vs Mono?

Stereo radios are 4 transistors and 3 wires plug (violet, green and black) while Mono is 2 transistors and 2 wires (green and black). This of course changes the plug...

3 ways on Stereo:

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vs 2 ways on Mono:

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So it depends what speaker setup your car got and the new radio you found...
 
Then, aside the Mono and Stereo setup, the Radios with the Cassette player option ( called as MULTIPLEXER on Parts Manual ) got a pigtail with 5 pin DIN connector for the cassette player connection.

These can be Stereo or Mono too. Even AM or AM/FM.

This connection can be capped or not with a jumper plug depending if the car was finally equipped with the cassette player or not.

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Oh my lanta. You the man. My harness came with a 3-way stereo but the radio is a 2-way mono. How to do I get around this to use the radio?
 
well, everything depends on what do you want. Being stereo you have the front speaker and rear speaker on driver side. They are "left" and "right" respectivelly.

SO, options are:

-you can just feed the front speaker as the Mono setup was made without any extra option... matching green and black wires between Radio and Dash harness. Violet wire will keep unused. You can replace either of both plugs and match them. Change the 3 ways plug on the dash harness with a two ways one, and the violet wire will be hanging around OR replace the two ways plug on the radio pigtail for the 3 ways one, and install green and black wires on the cavities to match the dash harness. One cavity will remain empty on this.

The rear speaker will not be used on this.

EDITING: I think the stereo harness section can be removed from dash harness and left it at a side and just use the portion running to front speaker to connect straight the radio to the FRONT speaker


OR:

You can get a rear fader knob and harness to use the rear speaker correctly as a dual speaker setup on Mono radio. This was an option on some Mono cars ( AM and AM/FM ). The rear fader control goes into the map light/seatbelt light panel on the cluster "eyebrow" area of the dash.

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diagrams related to these setups

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you can also bridge the green and violet wires together on dash harness to feed the rear speaker along with frontg, but won't have a pan/balance volume control between both.


OR:

Get the correct radio stereo for your car. They are not hard to find really ALTHOUGHT they use to be into $150-250 rate. If the AM/FM Mono radio you have works, could be sold into around same price rate. It worths more the AM/FM option, than the Mono or Stereo option
 
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