Mike Rivers
August 8th 04, 03:53 PM
In article > writes:
> Can someone share the knowledge of how to remove the radio/cassette player
> from the Toyota 98's 4Runer? I want to install a new player but have no
> clue how to disassemble the faceplate to get to the factory player.
Real human beings cannot do this job. Shops that specialize in car
audio installations magically can - actually, they take the car back
into the service bay and don't let you see the horrible things they're
doing to it in order to get your old one out and the new one in.
Another thing that you need to know (and won't be able to find out
until you talk to someone who DOES know) is where all the pieces of
the system are located and how just how fragmented it is. I wanted to
put a CD player in my 1993 Lexus ES300 (similar to a Camry, probalby
close to what's in your 4-Runner) and learned from the pro shop where
I took it to find something that would work that there were amplifiers
mounted all over the place and no way to control them without the
original dashboard radio assembly. I ended up using a Walkman CD
player on the seat with an adapter to play it through the cassette
player.
Save yourslf a lot of time and frustration and let a pro do it.
I put a radio in the old Gypsy Studio remote truck (a 1974 Ford parcel
delivery van) and managed to mount it in the dash just fine. There was
plenty of room to work in there, unlike your 4-Runner. But I was
stymied when it came to running the antenna cable. I had cut a hole in
the body and mounted the shaft but couldn't figure out a way to get
the wire to the inside of the car, so I took it to a shop and asked
them to do it for me. The guy just took out a big punch and a hammer,
drove the punch through the second layer of body, and ran the wire
through the hole he had just made. Ugly and nasty, but it worked. And
it only took five minutes and he only charged me $5.
--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
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> Can someone share the knowledge of how to remove the radio/cassette player
> from the Toyota 98's 4Runer? I want to install a new player but have no
> clue how to disassemble the faceplate to get to the factory player.
Real human beings cannot do this job. Shops that specialize in car
audio installations magically can - actually, they take the car back
into the service bay and don't let you see the horrible things they're
doing to it in order to get your old one out and the new one in.
Another thing that you need to know (and won't be able to find out
until you talk to someone who DOES know) is where all the pieces of
the system are located and how just how fragmented it is. I wanted to
put a CD player in my 1993 Lexus ES300 (similar to a Camry, probalby
close to what's in your 4-Runner) and learned from the pro shop where
I took it to find something that would work that there were amplifiers
mounted all over the place and no way to control them without the
original dashboard radio assembly. I ended up using a Walkman CD
player on the seat with an adapter to play it through the cassette
player.
Save yourslf a lot of time and frustration and let a pro do it.
I put a radio in the old Gypsy Studio remote truck (a 1974 Ford parcel
delivery van) and managed to mount it in the dash just fine. There was
plenty of room to work in there, unlike your 4-Runner. But I was
stymied when it came to running the antenna cable. I had cut a hole in
the body and mounted the shaft but couldn't figure out a way to get
the wire to the inside of the car, so I took it to a shop and asked
them to do it for me. The guy just took out a big punch and a hammer,
drove the punch through the second layer of body, and ran the wire
through the hole he had just made. Ugly and nasty, but it worked. And
it only took five minutes and he only charged me $5.
--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me here: double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo