1971 Stepside LS Build

[1971Stepside]

Saturday night I decided to do an easy project since I didn't have to much time to spend in the garage. Thought I would go ahead and wire up the radio. The AAW harness gives you two wires for the radio. A battery wire (yellow) and a brown wire (acc). Add in the ground and you are good to go. I hooked it all up and the radio wouldn't come on. I checked the fuse(s) and no luck. Finally, after a good hour or so I just went in the house aggravated. I couldn't believe the RetroSound was bad.

The next morning I thought I would try again. I consulted with bearterku and was confident I had it wired correctly, but my volt meter was not giving me a good reading on anything so I went and bought a test light. Long story short I discovered that the yellow wire had no power from the harness. The fuse was good. I pulled out the wiring schematic and could see the brown wire and yellow wire went to different locations on the fuse block so I traced it back and discovered the yellow wire doesn't go to the radio fuse, but to the clock fuse and sure enough....it was blown. Replaced the fuse and it worked. Simple job that took 3 to 4 hours