Wiring harness for my old truck

[Burner50]

I have a spare head unit laying around, and decided that I would prefer it to the cassette deck in my 1998 Ford F-150 XLT.

Only, none of the wiring harnesses I can find will fit. I am searching for an appropriate wiring harness.

I went to Best Buy and had them scratching their heads.

Crutchfield insists that it is this one: Receiver Wire Harness For select 1986-06 vehicles at Crutchfield.com

But this is the connector in the back of the factory stereo:

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Any ideas?

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[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

Check sonic

 

[trumpet 5,000+ posts]

You must need the amplifier integration harness, if you aren't going to wire the speakers directly to the new radio. However, there must be another plug, a flat one with one row of pins, because the red plug doesn't have all the signals the head unit needs to operate.

Metra Part # 70-5603 | Ford wire harness | Metra Online

 

[Burner50]

You must need the amplifier integration harness, if you aren't going to wire the speakers directly to the new radio. However, there must be another plug, a flat one with one row of pins, because the red plug doesn't have all the signals the head unit needs to operate. Metra Part # 70-5603 | Ford wire harness | Metra Online

There is only this plug, and the antenna. Those are literally the only two plugs on the back.

Hence the reason I'm scratching my head.

 

[Burner50]

Well, I asked a professional.

I went to Car Toys is Fort Worth, TX. Within 2 minutes, they had explained to me why I was confused.

Apparently, my "factory" radio, isn't factory at all... It is a Ford radio alright, but not the one that came with my truck originally. One of their techs knew what he was looking for. He reached in the dash and unclipped a couple of things. Low and behold what I was looking at was actually an additional wiring harness, made by Ford.