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| Posted: Fri Apr 13th, 2018 12:20 am |
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wh23g3g Joined: Sun Mar 11th, 2018
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Probably toasted the whole radio. That's why I'm thankful I only ordered the $20 radio from a salvage yard on car-part.com rather than some of the other salvage yards that popped up with the same radio for $50-$100. It wasn't very easy to unsolder either but I did get it off. I'm not sure if it fried or not. It's only one small portion of it that melted. Not sure how it happened. Maybe someone hooked up an aftermarket amp to the radio? Not even sure that would do that anyway. I don't see any signs of burnt resistors or broken solder anywhere on the board. I was just curious to see if I could take the entire radio apart to see if I could find out something obvious why it wasn't coming on and I knew the power supply board was good because I tested it on another radio before swapping it over. If I do get an original Premium radio I'll order one from one of the professional rebuilders. Everyone seems to have tossed them long ago and went to aftermarket but I prefer the simple settings and proper look of the oem radios. My factory 100-Watt Infinity sound system with factory amplifier, factory cd/cassette player in my 99 Dakota sounds pretty good so I wanted to see if the Ford premium sound was comparable. I still haven't found out 100% for sure if the 98 Rangers with Premium Sound had an amplifier. The radio rebuilders I've contacted said they all had amplifiers if they had 3 plugs on the back and that's why the BASS would be soft without an amplifier plugged in. But I remember having the same 3 plugs on my AM/FM Cassette radio too. So I'm not sure. Ford told me that 98 Rangers even checking one VIN that in fact had Premium Sound did not come with an amplifier. It doesn't even mention it in the Ford factory service manual either.
____________________ 1998 Ford Ranger XLT 2.5 4R44E Automatic 4.10 non-limited slip, 1993 Ford Ranger XLT 2.3 M5 Manual, 3.45 non-limited slip |
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