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Old Aug 10, 2025 | 06:18 PM
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Need help idenifying thiese wires their not matching stock color codes from the year the truck is a 97 f150 xl wires are for the radio all i need is witch is witch positive, negitive, eta

 
Old Aug 10, 2025 | 07:12 PM
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Welcome to the club !

There are LOADS of times when wiring colors don't match with book colors.

If you have a simple test light or voltmeter picking out some can be a piece of cake.

Depending on if the old radio had a clock, that wire would have power all the time as well as power to the radio switch only when the key is on.
What are you changing ?
 
Old Aug 10, 2025 | 10:58 PM
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1) Check my signature below (xl is not specific, need to know the engine size)
2) Take another pic of the pinout view (your side view showing F4DB-14N003-EA is useless).
 
Old Aug 11, 2025 | 10:28 AM
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Please explain how engine size determines wire connection for radio, thank you.

That plug appears to have 8 wires and it also appears some labels have already been attached.
We know there needs to be ,
Power at all times
Key power
Ground
maybe front ,rear speaker balance
maybe left speakers
maybe right speakers
Maybe power antenna up
Maybe power antenna down
If we had some idea of what is being considered to change, might be able to offer better assistance.
Sometimes radio light intensity is controlled by dash panel illumination control.
 

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Old Aug 11, 2025 | 10:40 PM
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Because when engine size is not selected, OK button is not clickable and can't continue to pull the diagram. It's the responsibility of the thread starter to provide correct info, not mine to take a blind guess and randomly select an engine size.
BTW if it's 4.6L what's the 8th character of your VIN, W or 9 or 6?
Just like looking for a part at fordpartsgiant.com as shown below, you'll be asked the same thing otherwise the GO button is not clickable.


 

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