I like the idea of wiring everything back at the harness to the HU, but what if you go with separates and your truck only came stock with a 6x8 in the door?

I haven't pulled the speaker yet, so may be a stupid question if the factory provides harness in the door for the tweeter even though I don't have one.

 

you would do it the same as if you ran wire from the amp to the door, you run your pos and neg to the crossover then your wires come out from there for your woofer and tweet.

 

Ah, now the light is dawning. I have to place the crossover in the door and take the speaker leads in the door and treat that as the amp wires.

Never seen the speaker harness adapters, but in order to not have to cut my harness at the door, do the adapters have the plug on one end and bare wires on the other that I can crimp spades?

Thanks.

 

not sure what your asking really but to run a crossover your going to have to just cut and strip the wires and put them in their correct terminals and tighten them down

 

Exactly.

Now I do recommend that you really secure all components in your xovers with a bead of CA glue (superglue) because the door is extremely hard on xovers.

DO NOT MOUNT XOVERS IN THE DOORS. (if at all possible). If you do not understand why search for the thread dealing with it.

 

Low, can you answer that? I'm guessing he means, is there any loss in going this route instead of full rewire?

That is my question

 

Not enough to make up the difference in time saved.

 

Devildog, is this the wiring method you hinted at in your email?

 

You got it brother!

Call me lazy, but I have done both, a full re-wire and this way and I will never go back. I could see if you are running a lot of power to each speaker or if you wanted to go active or bi-amp but not for 75w rms.


Hope that helps,
Devildog101

 

awesome, the more the simple the better. I consider myself pretty crafty and a quick learner but this is gonna be a big install.


Should I expect to see any loss of power (lights dimming, etc) with what i'm doing (Alping 70W x 4 amp, nav head unit, new speakers all around)?

 

Very possible. I recommend doing the Big 3 ASAP. It never hurts.

 

i'm having a hard time visualizing wiring up components in this manner. can you try and clear my head up?

I think i'm just over thinking everything before i even get it all laid out. but

 

Tap into spk wire in door and wire into Xover, Xover to spks.