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Old Feb 2, 2012 | 08:41 PM
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Its a 75 coupe with air, for thirty some odd years i have been using the yellow connector as a keyed power source for the radio.
The other two wires are black and gray. Looking at the wiring diagrams and don't see a connector with yellow, black,gray wires on it.

Not really sure what it was for, everything is working ok, just want to find out.


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Its set up correctly for the radio. Grey goes to fuse, black goes to ground. Do you have Doc Rebuild's Dash Harness drawing? Rightside middle.
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Grey illumination for radio dial
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Yellow accessory power for radio
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Thank you for jogging my memory, that is the original connector for the radio, all i am using is the yellow wire.

Been so long i forgot about it, think i will use that ground instead of my current one which is attached to the console.
Doc Rebuild's Dash Harness drawing, yes i have seem it.
Thanks for the info

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