I REALLY REALLY NEED HELP!!!!!!!

[EasyE]

Hey everyone i am so confused. OKay, my factory HU stopped working the day i got the truck and i have a 1993 explorer with premium sound option. so i decided to put it a aftermarket HU in it. at the same time doing the HU i wired up the system. here is where it gets confusing. The factory amp only works when my AMp in the back is powered from the BAT and the remote plugged in but it cant be grounded or have the RCA's plugged into the back of the HU. and when i unplug the remote wire from the back of the CD player the one that goes back 2 my aftermarket amp no sound comes out of factory speaker but the cd player is still playing i am so confused and need alot of help please any help at all is appreciated. thank, Eric

P.S where is the factory Amp mounted in my 93 4 DR?

 

[Alec]

The factory amp is in the cargo compartment, behind the passenger side panel. You need to run an amp bypass wiring harness.

 

[EasyE]

Okay i just bought one but does anyone know wich colors mean what. Like wich color that goes into the factory amp mean left front and stuff liek that.

 

[Nicaraguense]

Haynes

Go to Auto Zone and buy you a Haynes Repair Manual for $14.99. I always do that when I buy a vehicle. This manual includes a full wire diagram including the stereo. Also, any adapter kit should (should) be pretty well color coded and tell you what goes to what.
Good luck

 

[EasyE]

has anyone bypassed there Faxtory amp here yet?

 

[EasyE]

???????

 

[dan leon]

Search for "bypass factory amp". Should turn up a thread with a link that sells a plug-in harness that fully bypasses the factory amp, and allows you to connect the "speaker outs" of your HU to the existing wires in the dash.

I did not use the bypass harness in my 96 x. I soldered the wires instead.

Dan

96 XLT

 

[EasyE]

thanks dan. hey Nicaraguense that book has nothing in it about the premium sound package wireing diagram in it.

 

[Nicaraguense]

Really!?!?!?

Sorry, Din't know about that.

 

[dan leon]

If you have a VOM meter, you can identify each pair of wires that go to the speakers, and then use a 1.5 volt AA battery to "hear" which pair of wires goes to which speaker.

 

[EasyE]

ohhh okay good looks dan. thanks everyone 4 all the help i have been outa my mind trying 2 figure it out.

 

[izackary]

if there's a better investment than a haynes manual (which is still more than worth it for the mechanically inclined!) it's a subscription to alldatadiy.com. they have all sorts of diagrams, repair procedures, TSBs and recalls and more. it's $25 a year for one vehicle, and $15 a year for each extra vehicle. In fact there are diagrams that show pinouts of every connector in the vehicle, including mach stereos, and even the CD changer and rear controls.

 

[EasyE]

Thanks everyone the best buy audio place tried 2 rip me off they gave me this big block thing yesterday with all theses wires and that was the bypass harnest they gave me. but i talk 2 all of you and i looked in previus post's and i realized there is an easy plug and play harnest so i went back returned the friggin 40 dollar P.O.S and went back to the audio guy and told him how there shud be a plug and play harnest to do it. he looke din confustion then said ohh thats what that one is for! i almost died laughing there he said they always just threw that out when they installed in peoples trucks and stuff cuz they didnt know what it was. it was only 20 bucks and came with the HU harnest 2. now all is good. Thanks , Eric