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Old Jan 9, 2025 | 08:34 PM
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What is this shielded wiring? I dont see that in the harness.

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Im pretty sure i know the answer...but... Trace those out what's on the other end?
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Oh the suspense is killing me..... It is the shielded wiring taking the speaker signal out to the amps in a Bose system. If you dont have the Bose system, you wont have those shielded wires.
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It has a bose system but no shielded wiring. I dont see a connection for it at the receiver like the schematic shows.

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Today i started my double din conversion... while i was in there i saw the remnants of the shielded wiring. Best i can figure there would be 2 pairs of wires shielded coming from this connector... but, if it helps, this is what it looks like.

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For some reason, the 85 bose schematic does not match the 85 bose radio lid. I did find the gold foil shield.
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Today i started my double din conversion... while i was in there i saw the remnants of the shielded wiring. Best i can figure there would be 2 pairs of wires shielded coming from this connector... but, if it helps, this is what it looks like.
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What are these 3 connectors for?
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Since most of my connectors under there were quite butchered or totally missing, I wont recognize anything by the connector.
And, I don't have an 85 FSM.

Looking at this 87 FSM I have, there is a pink wire that energizes the Amp relay for the Bose system. A second pink wire coming from the radio goes to the power antenna.
The only Orange wire i see is an always hot line coming from the CTSY/CLK Fuse.
Black is most always ground.

Use a volt/ohm meter to check things out.
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