I have gone Googling and found nothing in this group that might help me with an issue I have with my truck's sound situation. Here's what is bothering me: I have mentionned in other posts that my wife drives a 2001 Camry and that I drive a 97 Tacoma. Her Camry is equipped with a radio that has a CD player AND a cassette player and it's about double the height of a regular radio. My truck has an AM/FM cassette player that is normal height. I want to play CDs in the truck, but I don't want to change the radio for one that only plays CDs and give up my ability to play cassettes. I notice that some people have had those double-height radios for sale on eBay, and I've wanted to consider getting one but there's a few things standing in the way: I'm not sure if the plugs in the back would fit in the dash and if they did, how much I have to modify the center console to get the thing in there and if I could, I'm not certain we have enough money to go out and buy one. The last one I saw on eBay went for $200 and I need a REALLY good line to fly that one by my wife.
But I do have a portable CD player and a portable MP3 player, so I thought I'd get one of those FM radio transmitters from Radio Shack. I can't get the thing to work. I put batteries in it and set the frequency to transmit and plugged it into my player and it won't come through on the radio. Probably because we're in north central California and the dial is really full. But then I started thinking... What if I could put a small stereo jack in the dash board ? I'm talking about the kind that would accept a 1/8" stereo plug like those on headphones. And what if I could wire that jack to a preamp input on the existing radio ? What I could do then would be just to plug in a patch cord with a stereo plug into the earphone jack on the CD player (or MP3 player) and plug in the other end into the dashboard. I'm not quite certain where the dashboard jack should be wired to, and that's why I'm here. Anyone have any ideas ?
Eddie