Non radio - Condensor

[Larry M.]

I had an earlier post today on the same car but this is a different question. My car was originally non radio but had a radio installed by Delco at their factory. It has been removed and I "though" that all vestages had been found and removed but I possibly found one more today. There is a condensor mounted on the back side of my battery guage on the dash. It is disconnected but still there. Has a long and thin flag terminal about 1 inch long, likely to wrap on a standard male tab and be captured by the female terminal. Could this be there for any other reason than the radio (e.g., is it stock for non-radio)?

[John H.]

Re: Non radio - Condensor

I had an earlier post today on the same car but this is a different question. My car was originally non radio but had a radio installed by Delco at their factory. It has been removed and I "though" that all vestages had been found and removed but I possibly found one more today. There is a condensor mounted on the back side of my battery guage on the dash. It is disconnected but still there. Has a long and thin flag terminal about 1 inch long, likely to wrap on a standard male tab and be captured by the female terminal. Could this be there for any other reason than the radio (e.g., is it stock for non-radio)?

Larry -

That's part of the radio noise suppression capacitor package for the radio, but it's not unusual to find some or all of them on a non-radio car; there were so few non-radio cars that some operations just installed them on every car. 21,000 of the 22,000 64's built got a radio, so they only saw a few units each day that didn't get a radio.

[Larry M.]

Re: Non radio - Condensor

Ok, I thought I'd done all this but an old mans memory must go south....I hadn't. But I went through today and fould all this stuff and removed it, except the ground strap on the accelerator linkage, and I'll get it tomorrow, and then possibly one more. The point of this post is that I first went to a post for 2006 which listed all of the condensors/capicators/grounds, but then I went to the AIM and it lists one additional, that being a condensor on the cabin vent fan motor behind the drivers seat. The AIM says you have to remove the fan to install the condensor so I guess the reverse is true. So if you're trying to remove all evidence of a radio you better get that one too, and I've never see it mentioned before. Of course the moral is to use the AIM.