Thank you Mr Pizza guy, as you can tell I know nothing about car stereos and now it gives me hope that I may have a way to find my issue. I will find a speaker and hook it up the the left channels coming out of the radio to see if i have sound, if not then I know I have bad channels in the radio and can replace it. I have already tried another amp to no avail so this will most likely be my problem. Can i use any speaker? I ask because all i have laying around are some small surround sound speakers from a unit we had many moons ago. Thanks, I now have hope!