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This Flurping Dodge's radio.

THERE HAS BEEN A BREAKTHROUGH!

Ok, I started the truck this morning to warm it up before I left, it had been running for about 3 or 4 minutes when I came back out, I noticed that the clock on the radio was on, and accurate, it said 7:38, so I decide to see what would happen if I turned the radio on, IT WORKED!!!. It worked beatifully, all the speakers worked, and sounded great. I could change stations, AM to FM, Volume worked, and I was tickeled to death.

Then about 3 or 4 miles down the road, it just faded out to static, the clock froze, and I couldn't turn it down or off.

I got to school and shut the truck off, and I turned the key on again just to see what would happen, the speakers popped, but the radio was blank.


Fast forward to lunch. The speakers didn't pop when I started it, but when we stopped at the bank to cash my friends check, the clock came on, and I was able to turn the radio on, and it again worked great, until a few minutes later, when it faded to static, clock froze, and couldn't be turned off.

This is huge improvement, but why is it fading to static? I get out at 3:00, I'll see what it does on the way home.


Ok, on the way home it never did come on. That's sad.
Also, it might be worth mentioning that it did have memory, I had it on 94.7 in the morning, and it was on 94.7 when it started working at lunch.
 
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That's what I was thinking, something inside that is making a connection sometimes, and when it does, it stops when it warms up.

As far as on Dodge talk, kind of, but with this one, so far, either everything works, or nothing works.
 
Yes, but I thought it was to the same point we came to, that there is something inside not quite right.

I'll some of the other radios tomorrow, and see what happens.
 
Ok, I was over at a friend of a friend's house, and he had a 96 half ton 2wd Dodge, and it had an decent aftermarket JVC radio, and it worked in that truck, and he told me I could just have it, so I tried it in my silver Dodge, no dice.

I checked all the wiring again, the ground is good, the key-on had 12.9 volts, and the constant had 13.0 volts.

I pulled it out of the half ton, and tried it in the Cummins, and it worked fine.


Ok, so I double and triple checked the wiring, still all is good, then I put this JVC back in the half ton, it works! for about 3 minutes, then it just died, but not like the factory radio, it didn't fade to static, it just died, nothing.
 
Seriously. It must be a broken or shorted wire. Or fuse or some Damn thing. Run fresh wires, problem solved. Or at least potential cause eliminated.
 
I did, I have the key on power ran to the radio fuse, and the constant ran off the old CB wiring, which was not a key on setup.


All I can do now is make my own ground, which I'll try tonite.
 
The Griff said:
... and the constant ran off the old CB wiring ...
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This is not considered new wiring. Get NEW wires. Run one from the fuse block to contant on. Run a NEW wire from the fuse block to key on (this is just to test out that it works in your truck so you'll change it later to a key on source). And a NEW wire from the radio case to a clean piece of bare metal on the dash.
 
Shorted out speaker wiring could probably blow the stereo as well.
Check where they enter the doors.
 
It really sounds like a loose connection to me. The fact that it will come and go randomly, and that it does the same with the stock head unit and an aftermarket one makes me think it isnt in the radio it self. It could be something as simple as a poor ground, but running new wires seems to be the smartest thing to do for now
 
Ok, well I ran a new constant to the wiper fuse, just as a test, and ran a ground to one of the door hinge bolts, that didn't help, then I tried grounding it to the big metal brace inside the dash, but I had to hold it on with vice grips, that got the speakers to pop, but that's it,

So I thought the 20A wiper fuse might have been too much, so I found another 15A, the Back up light fuse, and tried it, no luck.
 
What year and model is the truck? On Monday I will post you a scematic, what I recommend is having the unit out of the dash, even on a bench with a battery, run a fuse inline (you can improvise this with 2 butt connectors) and run a wire from the battery through the fuse, then a ground strait to the battery. Then use a loose speaker, wired directly to the connector. This way you bypass everything in the truck to test the head unit
 
I think someone already mentioned all this stuff and for some reason he either didn't do it or refuses to do it, because he never posted back the results. :whistle:
 
The fact that this thread made it past page one is kind of frustrating.

Martin
 
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The fact that this thread made it past page one is kind of frustrating.

Martin
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No kidding!
In the time I've spent on this I could've driven there, stopped at a few strip clubs along the way, had a case of beer, fixed all four radios in his cars and drove back with time to spare.
 
Right now I'm just giving up on it, I've never had anything put up this much of a fight. I'll mess with it more later but I'm just fed up with the whole thing.
If you still want to put the schematic up, feel free, it's a 95 half ton Dodge with a 360 and an automatic, and it did not have the infinity sound system.

I'll try to get an Ipod from a friend of mine, and just use the radio I have in the back seat with my ITunes,
 
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