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Snowbound
Jim
Radio install is pretty basic and straight forward. I got all the adapters from Crutchfield along with the speaker mounting brackets. Jack came by on Saturday from his moms house and connected the radio harness to the adapter harness using heat shrink but connectors. I was still pulling the rear suspension at that time so I wasn’t gonna have him solder and heat shrink like I normally do when installing radios.
I made him take the dash apart and pull the factory radio and speakers without doing it for him. Told him that how you gotta learn. He started to struggle a little bit figuring out how the speaker brackets worked. They needed to be trimmed a little and I had to show him how some of the tabs were made to snap off depending on application. That’s about as far as he made it before he wanted to run off with his girlfriend.
After I had all the parts off the rear I went ahead and installed the passenger door speaker using the trimmed bracket and wiring adapter. Went to the drivers side and when I was plugging in the adapter I noticed the green wire with black stripe was going to the positive on the adapter. The wires that attach to speaker have one small female spade connector and one big. I could cut them off and put on new but I’d rather have the negative to black and positive to white so I’m gonna swap the pins in the connector. Then I realized the passenger door was probably the same so I pulled that speaker back out and it sure was.
I was getting tired, the wife wanted to go to her girlfriends house for a few drinks so of course that means I gotta go too and make small talk with her friends guy. But before I went and cleaned up I took a look at the harness Jack put together and it was all good except for the wires going into the adapter harness didn’t match the factory plug. Remote wire was to a speaker wire, illumination dim had nothing on the factory side and all the speaker wires didn’t go to the correct speakers if at all. So I unplugged that and thankfully the key was never turned on so nothing got messed up. I’ll have to repin the adapter harness also. I’ll contact crutchfield and let them know it wasn’t right just so nobody else gets screwed.
Yesterday when I got home from work Josh came out to see if he could help. I had him at sandblast cabinet which was awesome. I pulled the tweeters and had to make a mounting bracket for the new tweeters. While I was doing this I got a call from work telling me afternoon guy called off so I had to go in early. That cut is short but I did get the brackets made.
Here’s what I had to work with.
This is how the factory tweeter was mounted.
I found some 1/8 thick plastic sheet and cut it for brackets.
I made him take the dash apart and pull the factory radio and speakers without doing it for him. Told him that how you gotta learn. He started to struggle a little bit figuring out how the speaker brackets worked. They needed to be trimmed a little and I had to show him how some of the tabs were made to snap off depending on application. That’s about as far as he made it before he wanted to run off with his girlfriend.
After I had all the parts off the rear I went ahead and installed the passenger door speaker using the trimmed bracket and wiring adapter. Went to the drivers side and when I was plugging in the adapter I noticed the green wire with black stripe was going to the positive on the adapter. The wires that attach to speaker have one small female spade connector and one big. I could cut them off and put on new but I’d rather have the negative to black and positive to white so I’m gonna swap the pins in the connector. Then I realized the passenger door was probably the same so I pulled that speaker back out and it sure was.
I was getting tired, the wife wanted to go to her girlfriends house for a few drinks so of course that means I gotta go too and make small talk with her friends guy. But before I went and cleaned up I took a look at the harness Jack put together and it was all good except for the wires going into the adapter harness didn’t match the factory plug. Remote wire was to a speaker wire, illumination dim had nothing on the factory side and all the speaker wires didn’t go to the correct speakers if at all. So I unplugged that and thankfully the key was never turned on so nothing got messed up. I’ll have to repin the adapter harness also. I’ll contact crutchfield and let them know it wasn’t right just so nobody else gets screwed.
Yesterday when I got home from work Josh came out to see if he could help. I had him at sandblast cabinet which was awesome. I pulled the tweeters and had to make a mounting bracket for the new tweeters. While I was doing this I got a call from work telling me afternoon guy called off so I had to go in early. That cut is short but I did get the brackets made.
Here’s what I had to work with.
This is how the factory tweeter was mounted.
I found some 1/8 thick plastic sheet and cut it for brackets.
