Factory Radio Help

[92bluesilverado]

Hello everyone,

my 92 has a factory radio with the eq & tape deck. I had removed the ctsy fuse for a couple weeks while i put new weather stripping on my door panels so that the interior lights wouldnt stay on. Finaly got the interior back together on monday, replaced the fuse and everything seemed to work fine for a day but all of a sudden the factory radio would just cut out and go dark for a second, then come back on. happened a couple times but now the radio/eq doesnt work at all. none of the fuses are blown. this happened all in the span of 2 days.

I did install the flex-a-lite electric fan kit (awesome kit btw, highly recomend it) before i reinstalled the door panels & ctsy fuse but i wasnt anywhere near the interior fuse panel and i wired the kit to the conv. center under the dash.

so is this radio thing somehow related or is this what the radio acts like as it dies? truck only has 85k miles on it and before i removed the ctsy fuse to work on the door panels i never had a single radio prob.

any thoughts/help appreciated.

[92bluesilverado]

It is very strange: last night when i posted this the radio had gone dark. I get in the truck to come to work and the radio is still dark. about 15 min into my drive I get on the highway, and after about 10 min on the highway the radio just comes back on. and now it still works. got to my office, turned off the truck, turned it back on and it still works. its like the battery has enough power to run everything except the radio and then perhaps after driving a bit the charge was enough to turn it back on.

I also got the truck warm enough at idle to get the e-fans to turn on. and the radio still worked fine. I cant seem to recreate how the radio goes dark with enough consistancy to figure out where to start looking for the prob.

could my alt not be putting out enough juice? all the other electricals work perfectly. no hesitation, windows, locks, ctsy lights....strange...

[93K5Blaze]

Maybe there is a ground somewhere that isn't making a good connection? Maybe just replace the fuse with a new one (even though it isn't blown) and see if that resolves it.

[92bluesilverado]

Maybe there is a ground somewhere that isn't making a good connection? Maybe just replace the fuse with a new one (even though it isn't blown) and see if that resolves it.
yeah i replaced the fuse thinking the same thing. still not working properly. friday it worked for most of the day, then it randomly quit on me sat AM. didnt work until this AM it magically came back on. i have no idea and flex-a-lite and others I have spoken to dont seem to know either. i thought about the grounds but honestly when i installed the efans the only thing i touched was the battery and then one wire to the fuse panel, no where near the radio fuse. i even unplugged the efan wire at the fuse panel to see if that made any difference but no luck. it just seems strange that i had never had a radio prob until the efans but then again it could just be bad timing.

[dave89iroc]

The radio brain under the dash probably took a crap, the shop truck is a 92 as well, and it stopped receiving fm stations one day out of the blue