Before you make a trip, get a 9v battery. Hold the red AND yellow wires from the radio to the positive on the battery and the black wore to the negative. Do you get power? If so, the radio should still be good, and your truck wiring could be funky. If not, it's time to get a new radio.

 

My 02 escape has the same harness as my 03 screw.
So just take a picture of your harness and match it to similar years of ford cars till you find a decent radio with the same harness.

 

Jeez...and I thought I was having issues the other day...at least I actually had some sort of idea wtf was going on. This comedy of errors is just plain annoying me, and it's not even my truck lol.

Feel bad for ya buddy. Good luck and keep us updated when you finally get a fix...if ever.

 

I know for sure ( after installing three radios in this style truck ) that is the amp turn on wire, would not ground it if I were you.

 

If you look real close at the blue wire, it has writing on it. It most likely says where it goes in the writing. I do believe it is an amp wire, like Banksh said.

So far we know you have power to the radio, and lights up but no sound anywhere. I said earlier, that a lot of old heads have cheap capacitors and weak diodes. This could very well be your problem with no sound. That is a separate board section, and is controlled AFTER the power turn on and lighting. You have the power and lighting, just not the output side. It seems to be the capacitors that blow first in these things. They just aren't worth working on, price wise.

 

I went to the scrap yard and they had 2 players I could choose from, but I had no idea that I needed a tool to take it out. I figure that if something went wrong, I'd pay a place to install it (50 dollars), and the scrap yard wanted 35 for the player its self, so I'd be in 85 dollars before tax. I got online and looked at a few stereos and found one that said "129 installed" so I figured I'd go get that. I got it installed, and the bill turned out to be 174 lol. I guess they decided I needed a new wiring harness. What ever, I'm just beyond done with this adventure so I paid them and went out the door.

 

A wire coat hanger or a couple 8 penny nails will suffice for removing the radio. A little late now but for future reference maybe...

 

One more quick question. The clock does not keep time, is there any way to fix that? Of course when the radio is on it keeps time, but when I shut the truck off, it starts at the minute it left on (if I shut the truck off at 7:56pm and turn it on at 10:00am it will still read 7:56pm).

 

Sounds like they didn't hook up that one wire. That stays on all the time.
Forget what it's called.

 

They call it the wire that stays on all the time.

If they used a harness, this is hard to miss. Unless they left a hot wire just crammed in the dash. Eek.

Or you could have a defective unit.