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It can be fixed? what the cost? I have extra parts if your interested. Everything worked on it accept it had no volume.
Vintage Jeep boom box
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It can be fixed? what the cost? I have extra parts if your interested. Everything worked on it accept it had no volume.
Same issue most of them seem to have. Looks like some bad capacitors and a bad amplifier chip. Parts cost about 5 or 10 bucks from China. I'd do it myself but I have a buddy who does it for a living and is willing to do it really cheap for me.
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The speakers are on the side of the radio and i placed a speaker post in the back of the radio for the rear channel speakers.
Thread necro! My neighbor just got me one of these old Jeep Boomboxes for my bday. Pretty cool that all these years later and it still works, for the most part. Just missing the antenna. So looking for a replacement for that.
getwetscuba
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I had one of those when they first came out. It was never a boom box. More like a waste of money. I could barely hear it over the highway noise in my 75 CJ5. Kinda embarrassing to have a Jeep logo on something so dainty. The toggles and knobs were fragile. I was super careful with it and it stopped working. Junk.
I like the mods on this link though. Maybe if the manufacturer actually had owned a Jeep they would have built them better or just put a Yugo logo on it instead.
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I like the mods on this link though. Maybe if the manufacturer actually had owned a Jeep they would have built them better or just put a Yugo logo on it instead.
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Interesting. Surprisingly this one everything works and the speakers aren’t half bad. I’m using the line in and an old iPod and been using it as a garage radio today.
Good luck getting the real antenna. My wife bought me that radio for Christmas probably 19 years ago and my 2yr old (at the time) son broke it the same day.
Unfortunately getwetscuba pretty much describes them, or at least mine to a T.
I am somewhat mad at myself though for tossing it out last year while cleaning out the garage.
2000tjjonah
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How’d you do the line in thing? I can’t figure it out on mine. I have the original yellow one
Did that stereo come with that big knob? If not, where did you get it. I want one for my stereo. Would be so much easier to adjust sound while bouncing along.
Well i didn’t know these existed either: Jeep Z-case boombox
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LOOOOVE IIIITT!!!! also, I rigged mine, -don't know if you can with the car stereo-, so it uses a usb hookup and run it of a usb battery charger so its totally mobile instead of 8 d-cells
Great build!
I recently got a discarded one (a brown extension cord was wired reverse polarity to the holes in the power supply tongs, and who knows what else got blown in addition to the leaked capacitors that I found inside).
Thanks for opening up the possibilities for modding/updating these iconic systems.
It’s to play a classic Rick Springfield CD with.
In fairness to Ol’ Rick he had the looks and talent.