Hello all, I've been struggling and am finally reaching out for help!
We have had this car from new and replaced the stereo sometime ago with a Pioneer unit and I guess they installed pretty good speakers in the kick panels and I'm was going to try to reuse those speakers and other factory speaker wire in the car.
I have a new head unit with RCA preamp outs and I'm getting signal into my new Kenwood amp in the truck and I know it works because I hooked up a spare speaker. What I've not been able to do is get any sound out of any of the speakers still left in the car, the kicks and the speakers behind the seats. Note: I removed the door panels and tweeters that were there and have ordered replacements as well has having removed the factory subs in favor of a new setup in the trunk.
The central question is, there were two large wiring harnesses plugged into the HK amplifier at the right of the truck. I cut both of these and am attempting to tap into the kick panel speaker wires. One harness has a 12 pin connector and the other a 26 pin. If I'm trying to hook up the left kick panel, which of these harnesses should I tap into and what two wires would it be? From my research it would be the yellow/red and yellow/brown, but no luck. I can't imagine that the factory speaker wires could have been fried, am I missing something here? FYI I'm not using any of the high level speaker outputs from my new head unit, just the RCAs.
Note: when I embarked on this, the sound system no longer worked at all and I assumed the HK amp was bad.
Thanks.
We have had this car from new and replaced the stereo sometime ago with a Pioneer unit and I guess they installed pretty good speakers in the kick panels and I'm was going to try to reuse those speakers and other factory speaker wire in the car.
I have a new head unit with RCA preamp outs and I'm getting signal into my new Kenwood amp in the truck and I know it works because I hooked up a spare speaker. What I've not been able to do is get any sound out of any of the speakers still left in the car, the kicks and the speakers behind the seats. Note: I removed the door panels and tweeters that were there and have ordered replacements as well has having removed the factory subs in favor of a new setup in the trunk.
The central question is, there were two large wiring harnesses plugged into the HK amplifier at the right of the truck. I cut both of these and am attempting to tap into the kick panel speaker wires. One harness has a 12 pin connector and the other a 26 pin. If I'm trying to hook up the left kick panel, which of these harnesses should I tap into and what two wires would it be? From my research it would be the yellow/red and yellow/brown, but no luck. I can't imagine that the factory speaker wires could have been fried, am I missing something here? FYI I'm not using any of the high level speaker outputs from my new head unit, just the RCAs.
Note: when I embarked on this, the sound system no longer worked at all and I assumed the HK amp was bad.
Thanks.
