Wiring issues

[PlumCrazy]

Okay, I have wired atleast ten aftermarket head units and amps, but for what ever reason I cant get my radio to work right. The stock radio works fine, but when I plug in my aftermarket headunit that only sound I gget is coming from the subs. If I unplug the RCA outputs to the amp then I get nothing. I know the head unit works because it was in my other truck for a while. I bought the adapter harness and soldered all my connections. The radio pwers up and works fine just no sound form the speakers.

My 94 that I took the radio out of had different plugs then my 95 so I couldnt look at it and compare. So I figured that my GF's 96 would have the same plugs as my 95, but it is just like my 94. So my conclusion is that the 95 is a Super Cab and that is why it is different. The only extra wire that I have never seen beafore is a black ground wire labeled AMP GROUND coming from the plug that has all the speaker wires. The other plug has a ground wire labeled CHASSIS GROUND. Now what I dont understand is if my amp is grounded to the chassis then can the AMP GROUND wire and the CHASSIS GROUND wired together?

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

maybe a speaker wire is doing short circuit with another speaker wire on the connector. when that happnes u dont get any sound on the speakers, only on the RCA outputs

 

[Loud Ranger]

you need to by pass the factory premium sound amplifier, id just run new wires from your headunit to the speakers or get the premium sound bypass harness. i had the same problem with my 95 and even though the harness matched up there was no sound at all.

 

[PlumCrazy]

Where can I get a premium sound bypass harness? Whan I looked it up at Advance Auto, the only harness available was the one I got.

 

[Ranger4657]

you might just want to save your self the money and do the wiring your self... that way you can identify what your decks' specific requirements are as compaired to the origional radio and using an adapter harness (who knows how or why they wired them like they do) ... because face it, when are you ever gonig to use the factory radio if your already juicing 1000w rms?

you might want to get ahold of a chiltons manual for wiring refrences and the test the leads on the radio ouput to identify whas what... lol...

 

[4x4fun]

I just get some HD speaker wire. And rubber harnes tape and make your own.

 

[Loud Ranger]

http://cgi.ebay.com/SCOSCHE-FDK8B-9...ItemQQimsxZ20090914?IMSfp=TL090914165007r8460

or best buy would have one but expect to pay a lot more.

 

[PlumCrazy]

Do you use all 3 plugs? My truck only has the gray one and the green one, the black one looks like my 94 on one end?

-plumcrazy

 

[Loud Ranger]

Do you use all 3 plugs? My truck only has the gray one and the green one, the black one looks like my 94 on one end?

-plumcrazy

i just ran new wire, so im not sure

 

[PlumCrazy]

I decided to run new wires. It took my forever to fish the wire through the rubber thing in the door on the drivers side, the p-brake pedal assembly made it really difficult to see what I was doing.

Thanks for everyone's input, I couldnt figure out what I had done wrong.

-plumcrazy

 

[Ranger4657]

yeah the wire through the driver side boot is a tough one. took me a while to run myne lol

 

[Loud Ranger]

a trick for next time is use a metal coat hanger, feed it through then tape the wires to it and pull it back through

 

[Ranger4657]

yeah thats what i did lol... it still took a while though... but that was back when i first got the truck and wasnt fimilar with it (i thought the boots were glued in) hahahahha so i ****ed around with trying to fit the coat hanger through the boot and through the door and stuff... big time waist of effort and time haha