Getting 4 wires into the drivers door...

[Eric VerValin]

How hard is this? I'm going to be putting my speakers in the doors, and want to run my tweeter in the door too. So I have 4 wires replacing 2. I'm wondering how that "thing" comes apart there in the door jam. Does that nut come loose, and that thing just pop's in half? To pull in new wire I was going to just tie the new onto the old, and pull it on through. any reason why that wouldn't work there? I've never had one of those apart, and cant seem to find any info on it.

:thankyou:

 

[LJRuddy]

IIRC, that thing in the door is a giant electrical connector and has no room inside of it to run extra wire.


Don't quote me on that though.

 

[Eric VerValin]

Well the 2 for the speaker thats there I would replace, 2 for each 1 if I could get away with it.

 

[intimdatr]

Its just a rubber boot as far as i know, and you should be able to just stuff them through and some how get a hold of it and pull it the rest of the way through.

 

[19sho90]

....or you can destroy it with fire!

 

[SuperHO]

Good luck....It's not just a boot....It's like a big ass plug. If i remember to, I'll look at mine after work and see how I ran em in there.

Curious though....where are you runnin 4 sets of wires from?

 

[Eric VerValin]

....or you can destroy it with fire!

I spent entirely too much time, sweat, and blood on this car.. I can't set it on fire.. lol


And its not '4 sets' just 4 individual wires... 2 for each speaker. 6 1/2 and the tweeter's each have a pair. I was looking and some seem to think you can squeeze wire thru some open ports on that connector.

If its too much trouble, I think i'll just run them adjacent to the thing and pop them in the door right below where they go in now.

 

[jc2001s]

6 1/2 and the tweeter's each have a pair.

If I am not mistaken, they are 5 1/4 in the doors, just recently purchased 6 1/2's because best buy and crutchfield said I had 6 1/2 in the fronts, and I do not, they are 5 1/4.

 

[Eric VerValin]

I'm pretty sure they are 5 1/4 stock, but I'm still going to make these fit. Just like I did with the 8" sub, and 6x9 where the 5x7's were.

 

[jayro]

Hey Eric, this is completely off topic, but evidently your car made an impression on an employee at the Advance Auto off Coliseum by Best Buy. I was in there pricing some stuff and he said "Some guy with a black one was in there. He had the the whole intake and everything polished! He popped the hood and I just thought "WOW"". Made me chuckle some.

 

[kevinspann]

I also have 6.5" speakers in the front door.

As far as running the wiring? No thanks. I want no part of that big ass connector.

I wonder if there are any unused points on it?

 

[jelloslug]

The jam connector is just that: A giant connector. To disconnect it you need to pop off the small round plug on the top of the connector and then unscrew the 10mm bolt that holds the two halves together. You then have two choices: run extra pins in the existing connector or try and force entire wires through the connector itself. The connector uses the same pins as many of the other connectors in the car so if you have any spare harnesses you will most likely have the parts you need.

 

[jc2001s]

I'm pretty sure they are 5 1/4 stock, but I'm still going to make these fit. Just like I did with the 8" sub, and 6x9 where the 5x7's were.

I didn't feel like digging into it where I might have had to cut the door panel, my spirts were kind of crushed that day.

 

[boat]

They are big electrical connectors going into to the doors, saw this when bubba and I were pulling a black interior in Indy and the guy already had the doors off the car.

And yes, the speakers in the doors are 6.5 for sure. Just replaced mine and that is what goes in there. I thought it was 5.25 also.

EDIT:
To save yourself some work, mount your 6.5 and tweeter crossover box in the doors and just connect to the wiring for the 1 speaker to the one set of the terminals on the crossover network, these would normally go from the crossover to your amp, then connect the end at your stock amps, figure out which wires they are and it will work as 1 pair of wires going from each door to your new amp. It will work this way and you don't have to pull in extra wires, just use what is there, extend them in the doors and at the new amp, if you have to. But if you don't have a cross over network, then forget it, that won't work.

 

[SHOMON]

If I am not mistaken, they are 5 1/4 in the doors, just recently purchased 6 1/2's because best buy and crutchfield said I had 6 1/2 in the fronts, and I do not, they are 5 1/4.

My Boston Acoustic 6 1/2 fit fine.

 

[SHOMON]

They are big electrical connectors going into to the doors, saw this when bubba and I were pulling a black interior in Indy and the guy already had the doors off the car.

And yes, the speakers in the doors are 6.5 for sure. Just replaced mine and that is what goes in there. I thought it was 5.25 also.

EDIT:
To save yourself some work, mount your 6.5 and tweeter crossover box in the doors and just connect to the wiring for the 1 speaker to the one set of the terminals on the crossover network, these would normally go from the crossover to your amp, then connect the end at your stock amps, figure out which wires they are and it will work as 1 pair of wires going from each door to your new amp. It will work this way and you don't have to pull in extra wires, just use what is there, extend them in the doors and at the new amp, if you have to. But if you don't have a cross over network, then forget it, that won't work.

That edit is exactly what I did and was going to recommend doing.

 

[SuperHO]

What those two guys said....

 

[rbruso]

That's the way I went, too.

Just be aware of the window's path when you are mounting the crossover and running the tweeter wires. I ended up having to leave the cover off of my BA crossover due to clearance issues.

Also, I didn't leave nearly enough slack for the tweeter wires. When I redo those wires I'm going to put in a connector, as the tweeter is mounted on the little plastic sail panel. Each time I've taken off my door panels (in the middle of a black interior swap) I've had to be careful with that panel, as it is now wired to the door.

 

[SHOMON]

You could also get the speaker harness adapters so you don't even have cut the factory wiring.

 

[Eric VerValin]

Well just that door is my problem. Everything else is 100% new. But after farting around with it... I had two thoughts, and they both showed up here. First was to tear apart harnesses until I found some pins that were the same size, possibly go down to granger monday and get some new ones if need be, but then for all that work, its just as easy to drill a hole and get some wire loom.

Then I got to thinking just what Boat and some of you other guys said about mounting the crossovers in the door. Which normally I wouldn't do, but these are marine certified so no worries about moisture.


I think the easiest / fastest really is to snip the orange/green and lt blu/white (lf pair) right where it is inside the car. Then I could tie my new speaker wires onto it, and let it use the old wire to bring it inside the door there.

I already have fished 2 pairs of 14 gauge for the front set of speakers, 3 sets of RCA's going back, my rear source rca's, rear camera rca, a backup light switch/wire, remote wire, and two low voltage "bass booster" ****'s for my amp's.

God help me I still need to build my false floor, trim out the amps, and get some paint on some of this stuff in the trunk. Then its off to source some grey carpet. I'm thinking most Taurus's have the same grey carpet dont they?



And Jayro... I know exactally who your talking about. He was telling me about his buddy who had a SHO that was bad and this and that, and the past few times I went up there, it was raining or snowy out, so I didn't have the SHO. So he was waiting on me to bring it by the day I stopped out to show him.