In most cases you will only need to worry about three connectors.  I
installed one about a week ago in my daughter's 86 Vanagon with the
following connections from the radio/CD unit.  One (black or green) will be
the ground.  Another (red) will be always hot power to keep the presets and
clock.  The last (orange) will be the KEY ON power for the radio itself.
You 'may' have a (yellow) to power an antenna retractor.  The remainder of
the wires (8) will be for the speakers.  Remember to keep polarity the same
on these or you will have poor sound and buzzes.
Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Sudhir Desai
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 2:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Radio Wiring

it should be as easy as the instructions imply.  :)

if it turns out not to be that simple, remember to put the shrink tubing on
the wire before soldering the connection.  :D

sudhir

On 12/26/05, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting ready to put a new radio/CD player into my '90 Westy.  I
> haven't pulled the radio yet.  I have the wiring harness adapter from
> Crutchfield and their instructions.  The question I have is how much
> trouble am I going to run into figuring out what wire goes where.  I
> haven't looked in Bently yet for a diagram.  Is there any info on the Web
that will assist in this?
> Or is it going to be as easy as the instructions imply?
>
> --
> Loren Busch
> "I ordered a feast in the hope that you would come."
> "I came in the hope there would be a feast."
> (From "Monument" by Lloyd Biggle Jr.)
>