85 ranger speakers

[Angie]

this could give some ideas of what I did in my 83. under dash and rears. cheers

83 302 build

Looks great!! cant wait to see the finished project.

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post 89 has a set of boxes (homemade) and amp mounted.

83 302 build

testing the stereo and popped in the seats with the console to see how this will go together. thinking this will be a good mix in this old truck. cheers nice of ford to place these nice extra holes for placing more important things like switches... will be painted yet, these seats will be...

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post 61 greater detail

83 302 build

Picked up my first chanter when I was 25, and tomorrow I'm 46, but regrettably I stopped playing a while back...life just got in the way. Every now and then I've an incling to pick them back up, but again...too much other stuff going on...maybe one day.

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post 24 under dash speakers

 

[That_4.0_ranger]

1989-92 Rangers used 5 1/4" (hole size) speakers in the doors. A door speaker generally will give the best sound in a pickup cab. It was common, "back in the day", to put the same size aftermarket speakers in the doors on the 1983-88 trucks. Here's an '89-92 factory door speaker:

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Note the water guard on the back.
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The standard cab Ranger factory rear boxes used about the same size speaker.

If you don't want to cut the doors (metal and cards) your best option is good 4" speakers in the stock locations for the fronts, and just good set of small aftermarket box speakers for behind the seats.

I have set of original rear speakers, but I'm not sure what would be involved in replacing the speaker inside the box. If memory serves, it looked like the rear enclosure is glued together.

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did the first gens ever have door speakers factory or were they just in the dash?

 

[RobbieD]

did the first gens ever have door speakers factory or were they just in the dash?

1983 through 1988 Rangers had factory front speakers only in the dash. Starting with the 1989 models, the factory speakers moved to doors.

A lot of first gens had door speakers installed after leaving the factory, and some of these aftermarket installations were clean enough to look factory. If a customer had cloth door panels and preferred a cleaner look, I'd mount speakers to the door and then just cut a hole only in the panel card, leaving the original fabric untouched. It was a "stock" look, and the speaker played fine through the fabric.

 

[Bobs Ford Anger]

I have a set of the rings I snagged at a JY.





Rear speakers are a weird small size, I opened up the holes in my boxes and stuffed in some 6.5's that I had laying around.

I've looked everywhere for those front adapters for my 1988 ext. cab. the rear in mine are 6x8

 

[svtcards]

1989-92 Rangers used 5 1/4" (hole size) speakers in the doors. A door speaker generally will give the best sound in a pickup cab. It was common, "back in the day", to put the same size aftermarket speakers in the doors on the 1983-88 trucks. Here's an '89-92 factory door speaker:

View attachment 66110

Note the water guard on the back.
View attachment 66111

The standard cab Ranger factory rear boxes used about the same size speaker.

If you don't want to cut the doors (metal and cards) your best option is good 4" speakers in the stock locations for the fronts, and just good set of small aftermarket box speakers for behind the seats.

I have set of original rear speakers, but I'm not sure what would be involved in replacing the speaker inside the box. If memory serves, it looked like the rear enclosure is glued together.

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[jjpp250]

I don’t know what speakers you installed but, on my 85 ranger I had so many different set ups. I started with a pair of 51/4” alpine coaxial in the dash (they will fit if you use a heat gun on the a/c duct) 61/2 coaxial alpine in the doors 4 punch 8s facing down behind the seat, always keep the same sizes in the dash and doors more or less changed them a few times as well went from 4 8s to 2 10“ to 1 oz audio 10” to finally 2 solo baric 12” I run 2 punch 75 to the fronts and a punch 150 to the subs for along time now I have 2 zap on 150 to the fronts and a 100 zabco 1 ch to each sub that set up along with a zapco SX-SL and alpine 7292 for over 20 years not driving it for more than 2000 miles and it all still works. The regular cab ranger has to be the worse truck you can build a good sounding stereo not near enough room I am very happy what I ended up with it is very clean and it’s party loud I could put more power to it but I like the zapco stuff it’s old but it’s made locally here in CA will they used to be anyway