MagicJames

Does anyone have a link to these shouldered bolts used on the plastic valve covers?

For 15k I expect the grill to be the right way up

Can I ask you, Is that the correct tire iron, or is it that sillly fold out one? or did they change them through the years

The bolts inside come loose. You have to strip it down from the steering wheel and tighten them. Pain in the @$$ job if you ask me. There are a couple of tutorials on youtube. And you'll need a couple of special tools for the job I think.

Very sexy

Lets see some pics my friend, gotta love a Chief. The poor milage is probably just a bunch of little things inmy option. The lift won't help, running a bit cold doesn't help, the throttle body and the whole system could need going through. The turn signal issue is a bad bulb or bad ground. The sockets for the bulbs also get pretty corroded and do that too.

I don't sorry, I'm just hoarder

Gotta be 1990, peak Renix era. XJ black and gold Limited - take to work MJ Eliminator Shortbed - for weekends YJ Islander - just for the beach XJ Wagoneer - for the wife Mercedes 560 SEC Euro - just because

Sorry for the late reply. When you test the terminals at the speakers, the difference across them when sound is playing will be zero. When music is playing, the two speaker wires move in opposite directions, so as the feed rises, the return falls. To test the speaker, put the negative probe on the radio ground itself and you should get 4/5V at each speaker from the positive probe. As for the amplifier chip, i can't seem to find my diagram, but i went and tested a good radio I had for you to compare with. Below are the results at each pin. The circuit board itself is labelled for pin 1 and pin 17 so you know what direction to go in.

You said your speakers are new and that it's all wired correctly. So if you have completely no sound, not even static, then its pointing towards the power amplifier. But you said you got the radio back from Jeremy so it should be good. I put a photo of the amplifer below circled in green, its behind the heatsink cover at the back. So if you want you can test it with a multimeter But first, I hate to go condemning the amplifier straight away, so check with one individual speaker buy placing a AA battery between negative and positive ends, it should crackle loudly when you connect it to a power source. Then make sure volume is all the way up, even try a casstette if you can. If it's still dead silence, then pull the heatsink at the back and test the amplifier chip, its a few small screws but they're different lengths so make sure you remember where each goes. If the chip doesn't look burnt, then put a multimeter negative probe on the ground and the positive probe on the output pin. Our radios take a 17 pin motorolla chip, we don't want this to show the full 12V, it should be about half so around 6V is good. I tried to take a picture for you but its hard holding the probes and the phone at the same time. If you get 12V at the chip speaker pins then the chip is closed and shorting the full battery power straight to your speakers. 0V means the chip is blown open. In both cases the chip is bad. I don't have the exact pin lay out for the chip on hand, its in my notes and i can get it for you. But I know pins 9 and 14 should be 12v main power and speaker pins should be about half that at 6v. I think pins 11/12 and 15/16 are the 4 speaker pins but i could be wrong. i hope this helps

Pull the nob off the volume button and crank it to max. Do you hear any hiss at all or complete blank? Do you have the corrct +/- pairings, so two greens or two purples for example example?

Looking clean my guy

I always thought the second connector was for ABS diagnostics

Congrats, looking cleaner than most already. Let's get some more pics

Lovely stuff