98 head unit help

[codyfrontier]

please help. have a set of polk components and am going to install in doors(only speaker location on truck) but how do i wire them from the head. can i bridge the head into the crossover or do i just use 2 channels from the head?

[demondrive]

Originally Posted by codyfrontier

please help. have a set of polk components and am going to install in doors(only speaker location on truck) but how do i wire them from the head. can i bridge the head into the crossover or do i just use 2 channels from the head?

juse use the front channels from the head (white and grey) traight to the crossover, then from that to the woofer/tweeter which components are you running? most need like at least 50-60 rms power, you might wanna look into gettin an amp for em for much better sound quality

[codyfrontier]

am using polk ex 6.5 with a 50 rms handeling. plan on amping after figuring what kind of sub box application i can use that optimizes my needs.(daily driver w/ kids) if i use just the front channels i wont loose any of sound quality?

[demondrive]

nah stereo sound is only split left and right, so the front left and rear left get the same signal. i faded my deck all the way to the front channel today, and it was all tweeter, which was odd, so i think on the harness the fronts are tweeters, and rear are the door speakers, so that will make it easy to hook your components up without running any wiring =D check to make sure, use a 9v battery ( ONLY USE THESE ON SPEAKER WIRES AS IT COULD BLOW AIRBAG IF USED ON THOSE) and put the wires to the batter, youll hear a small pop and youll know which speaker ya got

[codyfrontier]

cool appreciate the advice. so glad someone understood my prob. the speaker hook up was very confusing because of the tweets being the front channels and the woofer rear off the head. kind of confused about the 9 v battery test. how does that work? and when new head is installed should i move fade to front or leave center. and i would be stupid not to ask any ideas on maybe using the left over channels, possible location? oh and what kind of set-up you rollin. appreciate the help

[demondrive]

so i tried to make a little diagram to make it understandable, basically youll use the front channel from your deck to the crossover, then from the crossover send the tweeter channel to your front speakers(tweekers) and your woofer to your rear speakers ( door speaker) then youll have the rear speaker channels ( purple and green) left off the deck you can either just cap em off, or run some rear speaker wires somwhere and hook up somethin. the 9v battery test works by just engergizing the speaker so itll make a pop sound all you gotta do is tap the wires to the speaker, youll hear it. if you can see the speakers. this will also help you get the polarity right, if the speaker goes out, thats correct, if it goes in, its backwards. right now i have an avic-d3 but i just got the truck so soon ill be puttin in my type-r components off an alpine 4ch amp and then some sorta sub setup. hope this helps!

[codyfrontier]

thanks! thats crazy u made a diagram. will be majorlly helpful. never knew u could use a 9V battery to test speakers. last favor to ask and kind of feel stupid asking it but no guts no glory right, should i fade the sound on the head to the front or leave in the middle position

[demondrive]

try both and see how it works, if your usin an amp its not gonna matter any other questions feel free to ask, and the 9v battery thing works great but like i said only use it if you know they are speaker wires... are you using a harness or splicing into factory wires?

[codyfrontier]

going to use a harness (clean install) then mount the crossover inside the cab and try and fish the wires thru the door kind of a loop, if cant will install inside door. may try the amp option. try the simplest first. want to install a sub but trouble with the box selection. have 10 subs and have not had good experiance with truck boxes. any ideas trying still have use of folding seats for kids. ???????? how did u set up yours?

[demondrive]

havnt done my sub yet, im either gonna do a false floor or build a box where the jack goes