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Hi, I tried the AUX input mod on my broken factory AM Philco Radio... Swapped out the capacitors and the radio worked great, so I cut in an AUX jack too.  It's a cheap hack, but seems to work great.  I put some pics here...  http://palaceofkibble.com/Philco%20AUX.htm   Am still looking for a good replacement speaker.  Seems like there is not much out there for 2 watt 2.3 Ohm dash speakers  :P

Quote from: Rebolting73 on March 01, 2015, 11:09:17 PM
Hi, I tried the AUX input mod on my broken factory AM Philco Radio... Swapped out the capacitors and the radio worked great, so I cut in an AUX jack too.  It's a cheap hack, but seems to work great.  I put some pics here...  http://palaceofkibble.com/Philco%20AUX.htm   Am still looking for a good replacement speaker.  Seems like there is not much out there for 2 watt 2.3 Ohm dash speakers  :P

Did you think about repairing yours?

http://www.simplyspeakers.com/

There are even places that do them for you!

ID LIKE TO HAVE THE FACTORY AM LOOK RADIO BUT IT PLAY FM RADIO

Simplyspeakers is new to me, pretty cool site.  Am going to watch some of their repair videos and see what I can learn.  I had heard that the Ken Harrison  Model SP 570 for 67 through 73 Mustangs should be a direct fit and it's about 20 bucks.  Anyone used one of of them ?   Pintocrazed their are shops that do just that.  They gut your radio and put in everything you can think of, inputs, outputs, bluetooth, the works. You turn the power off-on-off-on and rotate through the modes very spiffy.

Here is what I did-

Replaced the mono speaker with a dual coil speaker that fit exactly-
http://www.garytayman.com/dvc.htm

This guy also gutted my am and made it into an am/fm with an aux input... Have it hooked up to my iPhone to stream music/gps when I' m driving...

This is awesome! I want the am sound when playing Super Tramp, haha! This will be great!