Ford Explorer & Mercury Mountaineer: Reinstalling Radio

Video Transcript

"Here we're demonstrating how to change a heater core on a late model Ford Explorer or Mercury Mountaineer. In this step we're going to demonstrate the proper service procedure for reinstalling your radio assembly. Now what you can see here is we've got a whole bunch of stuff to make sure we get plugged back in. And as you can see here, we've got a whole bunch of connectors on this side of the vehicle. What I'm going to do is take and plug in from here and work my way over. It's a good idea to do that, that way you don't miss anything. I'm going to start off with these connectors over here, and you can see that they're pretty much size related. This little white one's going to go right up here, and we'll get a look here, and plug this one in over here, and for the gray one, is all the way down in the bottom, just like so. Once we have those plugged in, I can take and plug the antenna back in just like that, then we can take and work on the main radio electronics. I'm going to take and slip in the big one first, and move to the second largest, and finally the small guy, just like so. From there I'm going to take and reconnect the cigarette lighter, we have a power and a ground line for the cigarette lighter, right there, and the illuminator, right there. Once you have all your connectors plugged in, you can take and slip it up into place. Now it has some pins and clips that it sits on, you can see here and here, here and here. There are identical ones on the other side, so make sure you get all that stuff lined up before you give it a shove, just like so. You're going to push it all the way down into place, just like that. We have two black body screws left, we're going to go ahead and start those now, and go ahead and run them down, right there, and tighten those. And there you go! That is the proper service procedure for reinstalling your vehicle's radio, hooking up your cigarette lighter, your rear defrost, and your rear wipers."