Hi gang,

Spent most of Saturday prepping van to install a new stereo (Panasonic CD w/ MP3) and speakers (6-1/2" mid-woofers and separate tweeters). Every time I dig into this van I am amazed at some of the "work" prior owners/mechanics have got up to with this thing, and it still runs. I started tracking speaker wires, and ended up pulling out the cruise control module; obviously a dealer-installed item, sloppily crammed up into the dash, a made-in-Taiwan control unit and rat's nest of wires... the fuse holder was broken, probably why it didn't work, but I never use it anyway. I'll keep the fore-aft wiring harness in place tho, handy to have pre-run wires the length of the van for future use. The horn was cobbled together w/ a relay, wired bass-ackwards to how it's supposed to work...found 3 broken wires inside the rubber conduit from frame into driver's door; these fixed the power mirrors, left heated mirror, and left speaker. All 3 were broken the same place, looked like they had been cut, and all 3 were almost unuseable from conductor corrosion.  Anyone else find stuff left by P.O.s that leaves you scratching your head, wondering what the f**k they were thinking?

By the way, the stock door speakers make a great home for component tweeters, just *carefully* pry out the old speaker from the holder/grille (it's glued in), cut out the paper cone and driver coil, remove the 4 rivets holding in the magnet. Leaves you with the shell, where you can glue in the new tweeters, and it's even pre-wired... just have to run 1 set for the woofer. The 6-1/2" requires a bit of trimming, not bad. Going to put my 10" Bazooka under the rear bench. Tunes at last! The MP3 player should negate having to install a CD changer, almost 10 hrs of music on one disc.

Jerry McCavitt

'86 Syncro GL 15"/Betts/OME

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