Installing the CD Player Santa brought me, I had to tear most of the middle dash to get that darned Amplifier out. I bought an install kit and harness adaptor from my local audio shop. They actually had them both in stock which surprised me. They were imported by FCT Sales LTD Canada and worked awesome.
I scrapped the DIN cable and re-routed the amp harness up to sit right beside the original radio harness in th eupper dash. I then soldered the 2 connectors w/ wiring that cames in the kit to my new radio harness. It was easy and very clean. The other end of the original harness stayed intact connected by the heater valve.
The kits cost me $35 which a thought was reasonable

Of course when you tear the dash out it is clean up and bulb replacement time.
Never realized until now that the bulbs (#74) that mount into the black sockets that fit in the switches are different from the larger (#37) bulbs that fit into the brown dashlight sockets. I bought local bulbs from Canadian tire.
What I noticed was the larger dash bulb was actually dimmer than the smaller switch bulbs. You can fit the smaller bulb into the large socket so i opted to use the brighter bulbs for the dshlights rather than the anemic ones that were there.
Clear as mud?
Did I buy the wrong bulbs? Are the correct dashlight bulbs brighter? Are the dashlights supposed to be dimmer than the switch lights. I have always thought the dashlights were dim.
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73 ES, 91 240, 98 S90