for those of you who have installed aftermarket stereo equiment into your f150, but kept the factory HU, how did you wire the HU to a line out converter?

 

I made a jumper, "T-harness" if you will. Using two different Scosche connectors.
FD23B, and FD23RB. Connected to a PAC OEM-2 LOC. 4 channel converter, maily because of the way I was running my amp.

 

you dont happen to have any pics do you?

 

No, I wish I had slowed down when I was installing. I always take pictures of stuff I do. But I thought I'd be going back in there for something and take them then. Never happened!!!

 

These are the links to the harnesses that I bought.


http://www.sjgreatdeals.com/sisfd23rb.html
http://www.sjgreatdeals.com/sisfd23b.html

 

alright... still alittle confused on why you needed both adapters?

 

I'll explain, but give me a few and I'll draw a little layout diagram.
One connector goes into radio, the wires that are speaker level are sent to the LOC. The rest of the wires, (power, steering controls, ground, etc.) went straight to the other connector, which in turn plugs into the factory harness.

Now, thinking about the amplified wires coming back from your amp, those wires I also fed into the connector that's plugged into the dash harness.

Variables will exist, depending on your setup, but idea should be the same.

Give me a few minutes, I'll try to draw something for you.

 

 

No cutting of factory harness, no tapping into speaker leads for LOC. Once made, it's all plug and play. I found a nice 9 conductor loom from Monster cable that makes routing and running the amplified speaker leads back to the dash a piece of cake.

 

awesome that just made it 10x easier to understand. only question is if im going to be rewiring to the new speakers and not using the current speaker wire, would i just leave green off and have nothing connecting there?

 

Correct, if you running your speaker wire from the amp directly to speakers in the doors, and totally bypassing factory wiring, then yes correct.

 

thank you!

 

No problem.

 

if im correct steering wheel controls will not be lost?

 

Correct because all the wires pass thru that are not being used for the adapter(LOC). Steering controls, speed sensitive, and power delay all work as normal.