Component speaker installation
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superliberty
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I replaced my stock paper cone speakers with kicker 6.5 in the doors, Two 12" pioneer premiers shallow mount subwoofer. Adding two 4x10 speakers in the rear pillar.
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Wow, it looks bad. 
hopefully you get your jeep back in good shape.
hopefully you get your jeep back in good shape.eradicator006
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Finally got my jeep back. They did an excellent job repairing it. No more squeaks and rattles from the tailgate anymore. The total invoice from the autobody was just under $11,000.00. I'm not exactly sure why it wasn't totalled off but I didn't question it.
I started to install my new speakers. I got the midbass drivers in the doors with no problems. I used the existing speaker wire so I didn't have to try to run wire through the door. Once I get some more time I will put the tweeters in the dash location and run new wires for those. One question...how do I get that "door" thing under the steering wheel open? I want to put my cross overs here. I pulled down on it quite hard and it didn't open.
I started to install my new speakers. I got the midbass drivers in the doors with no problems. I used the existing speaker wire so I didn't have to try to run wire through the door. Once I get some more time I will put the tweeters in the dash location and run new wires for those. One question...how do I get that "door" thing under the steering wheel open? I want to put my cross overs here. I pulled down on it quite hard and it didn't open.
JeepJeepster
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Just grab it at the top and pull out. It will swing down.
Glad to hear you got the jeep back and in good shape.
Glad to hear you got the jeep back and in good shape.
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Good to hear that jeep is back in good shape.
That door thing is pretty tight if you never opened it before, but you just gotta pull it really hard evenly on both sides if you can, towards you, swings down.
That door thing is pretty tight if you never opened it before, but you just gotta pull it really hard evenly on both sides if you can, towards you, swings down.
eradicator006
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Well, got everything installed. Turns out I have a bad tweeter. I had to rip everything out and it's going back tomorrow.
I'm was also getting no sound in the door woofers. I had sound on the passenger side tweeter (drivers side tweeter is bad). Tweeters are connected directly to the cross overs. In my front doors I have 2 wires. Green for positive and green/brown for negative (drivers side, can't remember passenger side colors.). The positive wire (green) matches to the positive wire on my radio harness (verified w/ multimeter). The negative wire (green/brown) doesn't match with the negative wires on the radio harness. I have wires going from my radio harness for the front left and right to my cross over. The original dash speakers also had 2 wires connected to them which are disconnected now. What I need to know is why I am getting no negative connection on the door speaker wires since unhooking the dash speaker wires.
Thanks
I'm was also getting no sound in the door woofers. I had sound on the passenger side tweeter (drivers side tweeter is bad). Tweeters are connected directly to the cross overs. In my front doors I have 2 wires. Green for positive and green/brown for negative (drivers side, can't remember passenger side colors.). The positive wire (green) matches to the positive wire on my radio harness (verified w/ multimeter). The negative wire (green/brown) doesn't match with the negative wires on the radio harness. I have wires going from my radio harness for the front left and right to my cross over. The original dash speakers also had 2 wires connected to them which are disconnected now. What I need to know is why I am getting no negative connection on the door speaker wires since unhooking the dash speaker wires.
Thanks
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eradicator006
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OK disregard my previous post. I exchanged the component set for a new set and now everything is good. The reason why I wasn't getting a negative speaker connection on both doors was because both of the pins for those 2 wires came loose in my radio harness adapter. Also, when I reinstalled things today I opted for some nice new 16 gauge speaker wire instead of the crappy 22 gauge stuff that came with the speakers.
These speakers sound much better than the stockers but I was expecting more. I was hoping for some more bass out of them. I'm used to running a separate subwoofer anyway (which will be installed next week). The tweeters sound great. I had to set the tweeter to -3db on the crossover because they were too loud being high up in the dash.
These speakers sound much better than the stockers but I was expecting more. I was hoping for some more bass out of them. I'm used to running a separate subwoofer anyway (which will be installed next week). The tweeters sound great. I had to set the tweeter to -3db on the crossover because they were too loud being high up in the dash.
JeepJeepster
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Typically you wont get much bass out of a speaker. Given there size, they are really only meant for mids and highs with the sub handling all of the lows.
I also had to use the -3db for the tweeters. Mine were way too loud on the 0db. Guess the location of them makes them louder being right up in that glass or something.
I also had to use the -3db for the tweeters. Mine were way too loud on the 0db. Guess the location of them makes them louder being right up in that glass or something.
