80 series wiring diagram (radio)

Gidday Bob H I will be here at 9 pm.
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Neat idea with the battery Utemad, yeah I agree just work it out, once you've eliminated electric arial, power, ground, acc etc etc it's just the 4 speakers to go! Easy!!
Rating, 3.5/10 swear words.

PS The surf was a 6/10 swear words as they have a factory amplifier in the back (hidden somewhere!!) which requires a relay to be triggered, which is somehow linked to the electric arial also, heaps of fun!! LOL

The ol 80 should be a pretty simple process.

Lots of those Jap imports have amplifiers in them as standard. Pain in the arse. We just removed most of them as they aren't needed if you have a quality head unit. But then you need to run new wires or fiddle with the existing ones.

The amps run off the power antenna so they are only switched on when the stereo is on. Although some stereos have two wires for this as the better ones will only have the antenna up when the radio is on so they need another wire to be on whenever the stereo is on.

Fun fun fun.

Utemad

Yeah when I origionally fitted it I was getting a humming/clicking noise out of one of the speakers, couldn't figure out how to stop it, then when I re-wired the electric arial so I could bybass it (stop it from going up when in the bush listening to mp3's) it solved the problem, now it sounds great!

Yes. My Pioneer radio/CD/stacker has 2 power wires. BTW my LC80 GXL has an amplifier in the back, but doesn't work. Now I know why - I don't have a power antenna.
Cheers
John

One power to accessories and the other to battery. The plug in your Cruiser will have both. Some brands use the battery wire to draw the current and the acc only to tell it to turn on. However others take the current through the acc and the battery wire only to hold the memory settings.

For best performance you should make sure that whichever wire _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx the current in your new unit has a larger diameter wire in the factory plug (you can tell by looking at the inline fuses that came with the radio. Big fuse=current draw wire).

Even then the factory wiring is probably not up to an aftermarket unit. I find it best to wire the earth to something metal and solid in the mounting hole rather than wire it into the plug. Also run a new current drawing wire to the ignition (either acc or battery wire dependant as I said before).

However if you couldn't be bothered to do that it will still work fine most of the time. You would only notice it at high volume/bass. The radio lights may dim and you might hear a clicking noise through the speakers.

Hope I haven't confused the ------- out of you.

Utemad

I would be surprised if there was no battery wire. However I can't remember what was in a 1994 Cruiser. It should have been a digital. Can't remember the brand (Fujitsu or something sounding similar?). If it had station presets and/or clock it has to have a battery wire to keep the memory. Check your fuses to see if there is a blown one. Although that wiring diagram will tell all.

Easy enough to run a new wire and as I said you will probably be better off anyway.

Utemad

Gidday Bob H,You can send to locallaw@hotmail.com
I will get back to you later as I have just recently got out of hospital(hernia op) and am a bit sore (doing too much on this radio).
20 staples holding my gut together.
Catch you later Locallaw