| I was cleaning out the garage and I found myself with an old AM/FM/Cassette
Radio in one hand and an old AM radio in the other. I got a thinking that it
would be nice to have FM sound in my Falcon. The next thing I remember I had a
screwdriver taking radio's apart playing like I was Dr. Frankenstein. I ran into
a issue or two, but I got the sounds I was looking for. The best thing about
this modification is did not have to cut anything to get the radio to fit in the
dash. It went in like it was made for it. To begin with I opened up the AM and removed everything. I then opened up the
FM radio and removed the cassette player. I had to cut a section of the left
side of the radio case to get the control shaft's to span enough to exit the AM
face plate. The FM shafts are a bit larger in diameter than the AM so I drilled a larger
holes in the AM face plate to allow the FM shaft to fit through. Using the AM
nuts to mount to the dash and the FM nuts to hold the FM shaft to the AM face
plate.
The yellow wire you see on the face plate is for the light inside the radio.
The wires going to the cassette player was spliced back together to get power
back to the FM. The station pointer was glued down for looks. Holes was drilled
for wires and antenna on the back of the AM cabinet. The AM/FM mode switch was
left in the FM position.
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