My Do-It-Yourself Project For Today (w/pictures)

[CO Liberal]

10:44 am - Truck with old radio.




10:46 am - Battery terminal disconnected.




11:02 am - Bottom panel of dashboard dropped.




11:06 am - Front of dashboard removed and placed on top of truck.




11:06 am - Old radio exposed.




11:09 am - Old radio removed and placed on top of truck.




11:11 am - New AM/FM/CD Player.




11:32 am - New AM/FM/CD Player with wiring adapter installed.




11:55 am - Dashboard reassembled.




11:57 am - Battery terminal reconnected.




11:59 am - First test - IT WORKS!!!!! :-)

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. Congratulations!

Very well documented! Four stars!

[CO Liberal]

2. Thanks

I decided to take pictures as I was doing this - the digital camera time-stamps everything, so I knew how long it took to do everything.

A little over an hour, including all the trips I kept making into the house because I forgot stuff I needed. :-)

[MuseRider]

3. Wow, I wish I could do that.

Dodge Ram? Looks like the inside of mine except mine is filthy with farm dust.

[CO Liberal]

5. Chevy S10

Any it's loaded with Colorado prairie dust.

[MuseRider]

11. They look very similar

inside. Colorado prairie dust is probably very similar to Kansas prairie dust.

[tk2kewl]

13. a fantastic piece of machinery the s-10

i have had one (4cyl 5spd) for almost 10 years and it still runs great.

[CO Liberal]

19. That's What I Have

4 cyl and 5-speed. Very dependable and over 25 MPG on the highway.

[Droopy]

4. A little over an hour. Not bad.

Minor suggestion though. I would have tested the radio before I reassembled the dash. Saves you more work if your radio isn't hooked up right. But then again if all you had to do is plug in the wires and not attatch them separately, it might not be a necessary.

[CO Liberal]

8. The New Radio and The Wiring Adapter....

...had all the wires color-coded exactly the same. (Looks like they've standardized wire colors.) I felt I had it right, so I waited until after reassembly to test it.

[flvegan]

6. Good work. Bet you're an ace at rigging up the Christmas lights.

[CO Liberal]

9. Nah -

I'm always flustered by the one light than makes the whole string go out. :-)

[alexisfree]

7. PIMP MY RIDE!!

:7 I will hide this from my husband...he can get ideas..

[CO Liberal]

10. ***VBG***

That's what us husbands do best - get ideas.....

:-)

[tridim]

12. Step 2 - Battery terminal disconnected.

I'm not making fun of you, every manual I read says to do that step, but I never have. 17 years of working on car electronics and I've never had one that did any damage while installing a stereo. I think the possibility of damaging the battery terminal is greater than the possibility of doing damage with a short circuit. I laugh in the face of the possibility of short circuits. :)

[CO Liberal]

15. With My Luck....

...I would have done something nuder the dashboard to set off the air bags. I feel safer with the battery disconencted. Besides, it's a Chevy with a side terminal battery. They don't get chewed up like the post-type batteries.

[48pan]

14. Nice Work!

Removing the dash is one of the most odious tasks around.

[roguevalley]

16. excellent. all that and snow too

[HEyHEY]

17. Disconnecting Batteries is for pussies!

Real men like the shock!

[arwalden]

18. What? They Didn't Have One With A DARKER Faceplate?

I mean... come on now! Honestly!! What will people think about your inability to coordinate colors?

Do you just not care?? What's the world coming to when people stop caring what others think about them?

And what will they think when they find out that your new CD player is worth MORE than your truck?

I'm also concerned that the brightly contrasting face plate will be a BEACONING INVITATION to thieves who can easily spot your new electronics with just a casual glance in the window. I'm tellin ya... that's just begging for trouble.

[CO Liberal]

20. The Face Plate Comes Off

And goes into a fitted carrying case so I can take it with me.

[arwalden]

21. Ahh... Those Clever Japanese!!!

Sneaky aren't they?

[CO Liberal]

22. Actually, Chinese

I know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but I bought it at WalMart.

At $74, it was the cheapest CD player with digital tuning I could find. All the others under $120 were manual tuning - this one allows you to store 18 FM stations and 12 AM - not that there are that many stations worth listening to in the Pueblo area....

[alexisfree]

23. our project take a look