its such a thick wire im not sure where to run it.....so i figured i see what everyone else is doing...thanks.....also is it ok to mount the amp ground wire to the bolts on the bottom of the rear seats since they go straight to the frame?

 

what year is your truck? and I have mine grounded out on the seat bolts so you shouldn't have a problem doing it that way

 

I ran mine right under the sill plate. There is a plastic gutter type thing under the sill plates that the stock wires run in. I cut the tape around it and layed the 1/0 down in there, fits great.

People seem to be ok grounding their amps like that. I prefer grounding straight to a solid piece on the body myself.

 

I've seen SOOO many people with problems when grounding to bolts, but then again I've seen more people wit zero problems...if you decide to use a bolt, make sure that you scrape some of the paint on the bottom of the bolt off to make sure you got a good contact

 

Yeah, I meant my 'ok' as an 'iffy, but works sorta fine'.

I agree with you 100 percent

 

Stabilant. Use Stabilant. Good chit, dat.

Oh yeah - the wires. I just run 'em out a window, up over the roof, down the A pillar, and into the engine bay - Easier to change when it's always a work in constant upheaval. Use body-colour cable & Don't fergit the duct tape lol.

 

Never even heard of that stuff, had to look it up on Google Looks pretty interesting

You duct tape your wires??? I usually just let em hang wherever. Ive found that out the back windown, between the bed and cab, then draging on the ground up to the engine bay works equally as well

 

i actually decided to run them out the back window and tape them onto my exhaust straight up to the engine bay and then to the battery

 

Dang - never thought of that. Bless Teflon/hitemp silicon insulation.

So - the Hot lead along the exhaust.

And the ground lead run as per Bartak's method. That'll double as a static discharge solution too.

Got it. New best practice.

Tanks!

 

precisely what i was thinking

 

Shall we put together a steller audio How-To website???

 

haha....and you know there would be people who would actually do what we say to....

 

Well, WTF not?

You just don't find advice like this every day!

You guys are a genuine Hoot!

bubba

 

Thats right, great minds like the ones here have to think up that kind of ingenuity first!

 

You guys are too funny!