kaczman
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- 2002 Heavily Modified ST
So I brought my ST into our shop at 5pm yesterday. We diddnt leave till 1am.
Did a front diff flush, rear diff flush, transfer case flush, oil change, and coolant flush. That took alittle longer than expected.
Installed new black headlights and side markers, put 8k HIDs in the head lights. That was simple enough.
I bought a pioneer F700BT nav unit to put into the sport trac. Well hell, I modified the **** out of the radio bezel to accept the double din kit. Trimmed it, painted the bezel and installed that properly. That diddnt take that long.
Here is where I spent the next 5 hours. I have the Pioneer advanced system in my truck with the factory sub. The sweet blue LED lit radio. I bought the METRA 70-5701 which is the Ford Premium harness with RCA, which I figured was for the subwoofer.
I hook everything up, and for some reason Im not getting any sound out of the front speakers. And the RCA lines that go to the factory harness wasnt for the sub. It was for the front speaker channels. Does this make any sense to anyone? We could not figure it out for the life of me. Upon further inspection of the METRA harness, it looks like some wires diddnt match up with pins from the radio side of the harness.
If anything, the premium harness that turned the factory harness into RCA inputs should be for the subwoofer outputs for the radio - right?? Why the hell did the passenger front speaker only turn on when I put the front audio outputs from the radio into the RCA that was crated from the Metra harness? We couldnt figure it out for the life of us.
I sure hope I just ordered the wrong harness, but I have no clue. The other possibility is that the drivers front speaker is blown... but it was working prior to the Nav install.
Can anyone out there shed some light on what I need to do to get everything working properly? I have been doing car audio for years and I am completely stumped.
Did a front diff flush, rear diff flush, transfer case flush, oil change, and coolant flush. That took alittle longer than expected.
Installed new black headlights and side markers, put 8k HIDs in the head lights. That was simple enough.
I bought a pioneer F700BT nav unit to put into the sport trac. Well hell, I modified the **** out of the radio bezel to accept the double din kit. Trimmed it, painted the bezel and installed that properly. That diddnt take that long.
Here is where I spent the next 5 hours. I have the Pioneer advanced system in my truck with the factory sub. The sweet blue LED lit radio. I bought the METRA 70-5701 which is the Ford Premium harness with RCA, which I figured was for the subwoofer.
I hook everything up, and for some reason Im not getting any sound out of the front speakers. And the RCA lines that go to the factory harness wasnt for the sub. It was for the front speaker channels. Does this make any sense to anyone? We could not figure it out for the life of me. Upon further inspection of the METRA harness, it looks like some wires diddnt match up with pins from the radio side of the harness.
If anything, the premium harness that turned the factory harness into RCA inputs should be for the subwoofer outputs for the radio - right?? Why the hell did the passenger front speaker only turn on when I put the front audio outputs from the radio into the RCA that was crated from the Metra harness? We couldnt figure it out for the life of us.
I sure hope I just ordered the wrong harness, but I have no clue. The other possibility is that the drivers front speaker is blown... but it was working prior to the Nav install.
Can anyone out there shed some light on what I need to do to get everything working properly? I have been doing car audio for years and I am completely stumped.
good write up.
