How to modify your radio to be an MP3 player!

nolan in blaine · Post by **nolan in blaine** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:38 pm

that'l do

evan_flatt69 · Post by **evan_flatt69** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:12 am

Did ya get the mod all worked out nolan?

nolan in blaine · Post by **nolan in blaine** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:16 pm

not yet. the radio is all apart and i have the cable. but i dont have a soldering iron yet... Ill get one come pay day

evan_flatt69 · Post by **evan_flatt69** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:18 pm

nolan in blaine wrote:not yet. the radio is all apart and i have the cable. but i dont have a soldering iron yet... Ill get one come pay day

Got any updates on success?

Doug F · Post by **Doug F** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:54 am

Thanks Evan... I am pretty intimate with my one radio, I was trying to gut it and install a whole AM/FM assy in it, without success; so I just rebuilt it.
I have pictures and will send them to you (or post them). I appreciate your response and think this is pretty cool.

Doug.

evan_flatt69 · Post by **evan_flatt69** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:36 am

Anyone had any luck with this?

flyboy71 · Post by **flyboy71** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:39 pm

Evan. Is the radio still active all the time? By that I mean do you need to tune it to a dead spot on the dial? I didnt tear mine apart to see where this goes on the schematic in circuit but if so maybe one could use a switching jack to take the radio in and out of line when the plug is inserted.

Rolo17 · Post by **Rolo17** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:51 pm

evan_flatt69 wrote:Anyone had any luck with this?

Just did it. Took a couple of hours but very simple and easy to do. I used a $2 pair of headphones for my audio jack and hooked up some more wire to make it longer. Works really well.
Thanks

evan_flatt69 · Post by **evan_flatt69** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:15 pm

flyboy71 wrote:Evan. Is the radio still active all the time? By that I mean do you need to tune it to a dead spot on the dial? I didnt tear mine apart to see where this goes on the schematic in circuit but if so maybe one could use a switching jack to take the radio in and out of line when the plug is inserted.

Yes the radio is active all the time but as soon as you plug in the MP3 player it quiets down the radio a lot and with your MP3 player volume all the way up you cant hear the radio even if it is on a station. But I suppose you could wire in some type of switch to select which one you wanted to use.

evan_flatt69 · Post by **evan_flatt69** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:16 pm

Rolo17 wrote:
evan_flatt69 wrote:Anyone had any luck with this?
Just did it. Took a couple of hours but very simple and easy to do. I used a $2 pair of headphones for my audio jack and hooked up some more wire to make it longer. Works really well.
Thanks

Wow! Glad to hear it went well and someone else is having this convenient music player. Thanks for posting.

tybob81 · Post by **tybob81** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:25 pm

Great littlle write up!! Great job!!!!!!!!!!

evan_flatt69 · Post by **evan_flatt69** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:05 pm

tybob81 wrote:Great littlle write up!! Great job!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you sir!

fordman · Post by **fordman** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:13 pm

i emailed kieth to put this as a permant tutorial someplace on the site. i think this is still the greatest mod anyone could ever do to thier truck.

evan_flatt69 · Post by **evan_flatt69** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:33 am

fordman wrote:i emailed kieth to put this as a permant tutorial someplace on the site. i think this is still the greatest mod anyone could ever do to thier truck.

Thanks for doing that fordman. And I appreciate the kind words as usual! This mod could be better with some more electrical work but It's still a very nice way to listen to your own music while keeping the stock radio appearence.

fordman · Post by **fordman** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:17 pm

you know the funny part? i dotn even have a ipod or mp3 player to hook to it when i do the mod. but what i do liek about hte thread is you show where to hook up the wires to run the jacks for doing it. so that means i could now hook up muiltiple jacks including rca jacks and so forth to plug in what ever i want to plug into it. even a 8 track player. ha ha.

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