el camino stereo help please!

[caminokilla420]

well i have a 1979 elcamino SS i love it but when i bought it , the people i bought it from cut the stereo out and now i have the pig tails still there tho i have bought a new stereo and speakers but the colors that come from the back of the new stereo do not match the ones on the old wires i dont know what which old wire does what because i dont have the manual cuz they didnt give me it either please help me what can i do? does anybody how what which old wires do what or know where i can find the infomation?

[ssjwizard]

a general sences is that there realy isnt an exactset of wire colors on hstock harnesses that arent designed to be worked on by the owner. what your going to need is a multimeter and about 2 hours of time.

personaly i recomend that you just find the power wires and run new wire to speekers as stock wire is verry light and not greatest of quality.

ok what you need to do is grab your multimeter and set it to dc voltage test take the black wire and find something to ground it to and start probing all the wires down there. by this you take the point and shove it through the insulation of the wire. do this while the car is off you need to find your constant line. once you get a reading of about 12V youve found yout yellow wire.

now flip the key to ACC and probe all other wires again and find one thats 12V now this is the red wire. ground down the black wire and run wire for your speekers acordingly.

to do that you just twist on your new wires and left fron goes over the steering colum zip tie as nessicary. the piece of trim right before the door jam pop that off and feed this wire through the boot into the door trim and connect to the speeker. right just zip tie to anything under the dash or super sticky tape it up there. feed throught boot clip and wire speeker.

rear speekers do you even have these? you can either run both sets of wires under the carpet down the middle or one side or the other and connect them.

[ssjwizard]

also if you jsut want to use stock wiring all you need to do is set it to continuity check put the pos on one of the wires in the door at the speeker and start probing wires it will beep or flash when it gets a connection mark wire switch to the other speeker wire and repeat.

[caminokilla420]

is there maybe an easier way to match up whe old and new wires with out using a multi meter thing

[ssjwizard]

there is like 2 others i can think of but no guarentees on wether they will work all that well. first is you take off yoru door pannel and see what color the two wires in there to the speeker are and see if there are two the same in your dash this tends no to work beacouse the wires meat at another harness someplace and change but not allways. also you can ground one side of the speeker with something and touch all the wires to a aa batery it will thump when you hit it. for the power wires just strip them back a bit and tap them all agenst some ground metal in the car the one that sparks is live and you now need to replace your fuse.

[caminokilla420]

the person i got it from took the speakers also and there isnt a place in the door for speakers but i did buy some boxes and put 6x9s in them for the sound so my whole system is brand new except for the pig tails but i dont know what wire does what is there like a website i can go to that will say for instance red wire with purple stripe is the ground ect any information will help. thank you.

[ssjwizard]

like i said in my original post most of the time the iner side harness(there side not the user side) isnt color coded its all up to the particular builders prefrence and will varry from 1 car to the next even if they are the same year/model. any stereo install place will multimeter test it. the only wire you NEED to locate is the aac wire the rest you can refabricate yourself.