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1969 Delco 8 track AM Radio
Hi,
Not sure if this is the best place for this post.... My 69 Chevelle SS Convertible came with the AM Radio, 8 Track Player combo. For some time now, the 8 track player worked, AM radio did not. The radio had no power. I removed the 8 track player, cleaned it well, used some De-Ox-It on the terminals and rotary contact switch that's located inside the 8 track player. Now, the AM radio works, 8 track player does not, no power to unit. I figured out that the rotary contact switch controls the function of the AM Radio, 8 track, speaker selection. Does anyone have a schematic or wiring diagram for these units? I found a Sams Photofact book at a swap meet that shows details of 8 track components and circuit board. The Sams shows zero about wiring between the two units. Thanks
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I would never touch a car radio BUT IIRC Delcos used boards that
were printed on both sides. There were wiring kits to fix them. Look at that first. Story time ! My old man bought a '66 SS396. A real odd ball, bench seat & column powerglide. Me & big brother took it to the local passion pit to see Vanishing Point. When the flick ended everyone was inspired. We left the place going sideways for half a mile. It was said you could hear tires screaming 2 towns away when the movie ended. My father sold it just when I turned 16 . He gave me life & probably saved it....... 73 Zeno LFOD ! |
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I hear ya Zeno. I bought the car from the original owner 35 years ago, I was 21. The last thing he said to me when I drove away was, " don't blow it up." I was pretty careful with it for the most part. I knew it was something nice and I couldn't replace it if I cracked it up. The 66 was an oddball, but, cool. A friend of mine had a 67 Impala that was equipped like yours. It had all the factory performance parts, and a bench seat. It lasted about a month with a 17 year old kid behind the wheel.
My 8 track has a single sided board. I really need some literature to figure out whats going on. I'm a tube audio guy. I understand the tube circuits but know very little about 60s era solid state. I don't want to experiment and learn with the Delco
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Could be an intermittent connection between the radio and 8-track that was jarred loose during the procedure. Sometimes more than a single DeOxit treatment is needed as well. For instance I happen to be using a modified car stereo with 8-track as my computer's sound system whose right channel often cuts out with the switch in the radio/tape position. Since I assumed the switch to be good when I got it I thought I had wired something incorrectly. The right channel kicked in when I bumped the switch, prompting a DeOxit treatment that made little difference. I haven't bothered to retry it yet.
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I'd like to see a pic of the Chevelle sometime. Despite being a Ford man, I always thought the Chevelle was a great looking car, especially ones like yours. I had a '67 once, but it wasn't in the same class as an SS convertible . Mine was a 4 door, 6 cylinder, straight shift on the column, and the only options were a heater and AM radio. If Chevy had named their option packages in those days, mine would have been called the "Granny Package".
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I'm not sure what "straight shift" means, but I assume it was a 3-speed manual. Even though I have no desire to tear up the roads, I would be underwhelmed by one of those. |
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"Slip 'n' slide w/Powerglide. When my parents were 1st married they were in the Army, he was in the infantry & she worked in a testing lab. She had one of the 1st test batches of Silly Putty-the manufacturer sent it to the army thinking they MIGHT figger out how to use it, but I don't think they ever did. It was thought it might be useful as stopping bullets, but it would run out of any fabric they used, & the damn stuff would shatter like glass when shot. They kept a little glass of it in their medicine cabinet for years. They had a '51 Chevy w/Powerglide, daddy said it absolutely would not slide on wet/icy pavement at all Mama learned how to drive in it, She got busted for speeding thru the enlisted men's barracks area-she was going a blazing 19 MPH & the speed limit was 17 MPH. The JAG was a friend of my dad's & Henry told him to read her the riot act, which he did & Winifred thought she was gonna be shot... She was a little woman & kinda gullible & my dad wasn't above picking on her a bit.. Neither was I. I grew big early on, by the time I was 10, 11, I could pick her up, plant her on my hip & tromp thru the house-and she'd be squalling blue bloody murder all the while. I'd look down at her, grin & go "Aww, Winnifred, HUSH !" That would set her off even further. She's been gone 10 years now, what I wouldn't give to pick her up & have her back for just 5 minutes now....
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Yes, a three speed manual transmission with column shift. While a little slow on the 1-2 shift, I think they made the little 6 cylinder engine seem more powerful than it really was. I have driven some of the powerglide models, and they seemed to drag down the little 6.
As the old saying went "Slip and Slide With Power Glide" |
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LOL, Sandy beat me to it
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A buddy had a '69 Camaro w/a powerglide, & he said it would wind & wind until it hit around 55 & go BANG ! & go into high...It must have been turning umpteen thousand RPM... But maybe they were so loosey-goosey that's why they didn't blow up...
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