Re: [AMC-List] Need Gremlin/Hornet dash speaker bracket

["Keith" <55fordf100@xxxxxxx>]

Here is a good article on speakers (4 and 8 ohm):

http://www.rocketroberts.com/techart/spkr.htm
Note that adding a resistor to a 4 ohm speaker will help to keep the radio's amplifier from being damaged, but you also reduce the audio signal strength. You can still get 8 ohm speakers. I bought 2 6x9's on E-bay a couple weeks ago. I only needed one. Maybe I can trade for something minor I need for my 65 Marlin. I have a short list. If anyone has some Marlin parts and would like a NEW Delco 8 ohm speaker maybe we can strike up a deal. BTW the AM/FM radio in the Marlin worked after hooking it up. Who knows how many years it has been since that radio actaully played some music. I am trying to keep it from being tuned to any Rap stations. That may kill the radio (Hah!).

Keith



Date: Monday, January 1, 2007 08:46 PM
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, JOE FULTON wrote:

> I am installing an AM radio in my 77 Gremlin (same
> dash since the early 70s I think).
>
> I need the dash speaker bracket.  I will buy a new
> speaker.  I assume a standard 6 x 9 speaker will fit,
> but would like someone also to confirm the resistance
> of the factory speaker. 8? 16?

The factory speaker is a hard to find size, like 4 x 9 or
something. I have a 6 x 9 in my 1970 hornet, but the big
magnet on modern speakers is too large to allow installing the
cardboard glovebox insert; luckily the glovebox is quite fine
without it. Once ain a while I find things like the steel tire
pressure gauge stuck up to it.

Unless 77 is a different radio that the earlier Hornet radios
(I doubt it) it wants 8 ohms. The problem today is it's hard
to find 8 ohm speakers! Because really good transistors are
now cheap and easy, 4 ohm and even 2 ohm speakers are common,
and 8 ohm hard to find.

On my truly old and delicate 63 Rambler radio, I soldered 3.9 ohm
resistor in series with a 4 ohm speaker. The old radio probably
wouldn't tolerate the bigger load on the final transistor.


(I could mail you the speaker bracket from the 73 Hornet if
you want it. The speaker however is trash)

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