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Been searching and can not find.

It's easier than you think.  When you get the stereo you need to also buy a dash mounting kit and a wiring harness.  The dash kit will make it fit into your dash obviously.

The wiring harness will have color coded wires and you just match up the wires from the harness to the wires on the cd player and twist them together after stripping the tips (recommend covering any exposed copper with wire nuts or electric tape or it will blow fuses)  Then the harness just plugs into your dash, and voila, you have digital sounds.  

Does that make any sense?  I'm not much good at 'splaining things.  It's really easy, once you pull the old stereo out and see the wiring harness, it all comes together real quick.  You can find harnesses at any car audio store or online

Semper Fi
Justin

The one I'm looking into has the dash kit with it, hopefully it will fit in without much trouble.  Fords are not known for their wiring, their may be 3 different wiring combination's just for one vehicle, color coding isn't as easy.  I've searched everywhere for a conversion harness to save the trouble of cutting and splicing but its simply too old to find one that is compatible.  

If all goes well it will be a weekend project.  Still undecided as to what I'm getting.  I've considered taking the one out of my old Bronco and then putting the stereo from the F-150 into it since I'm selling it soon.  But, that means lots of splicing, have to remove the dash kit from the Bronco, then hope that the wiring harness from the F-150 is the same as the original and wire it into the Bronco while taking the CD players harness then wiring it into the F-150.  More trouble then its worth, and the CD player works, but the face plate falls off every rough bump, would really like to just get a new one since there's a couple of good JVC's I'm looking into under $100.

Will see what happens, hopefully all goes well, thinking of trying the library tomorrow if I can get home from work early enough, they have manuals for just about anything, finding the right one could take awhile though :-/

volt/ohm meter, test light.  ;)
I did my Mustang a few years back. It really wasn't all that difficult. I think I had had to run a wire a wire to one of the auxilarys in the fuse panel for the backlight...or was it the clock? :-? It's been too long. Anyway, the model stereo I installed had two power inputs.
The only trouble I ran into was the Mustang had the Ford high-end *chuckle* stereo. This particular model had a seperate amplifier and I had to rewire around it. It was a strange setup and I used an ohm meter to trace the speaker wires.
I soldered and then used heatshrink tubing at all the splices. I think the whole job only took around 3 hours. I Later installed an amplifier to the rear speakers to replace the factory one.

[quote]The one I'm looking into has the dash kit with it, hopefully it will fit in without much trouble.