Re: IML: '73 LeBaron speaker wiring

[Christopher Hoffman <imperial67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any chance you hooked up the wires at your new connector backwards (in other
words, swapped the left and right rear speaker leads)? Seems like the easy
place to fix 'em, too, rather than rewiring under the rear shelf. Just a
thought...
-- 
Chris in LA
67 Crown
78 NYB Salon



On 11/10/04 8:33 am, Jay King (j_king@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> The old 6x9's came out without a problem, and the new ones (with much heavier
> magnets) bolted up without a problem, but I noticed when checking the
> installation that when I fade the radio full front and full left (to get sound
> from only the speaker in the dash on the driver's side) and then roll the
> fader to full rear, the RIGHT rear speaker is the only one that sounds!
> 
> As nearly as I can tell the system was unmolested (the old dry-rotted speakers
> were stamped "Chrysler" with authentic-seeming parts numbers), so I don't have
> a clue as to whether it came from the factory that way (I can't believe that)
> or someone swapped leads at some point.
> 
> Point of reference: the radio is not stock, but aftermarket. The original
> AM/FM/8TK went belly-up a couple of years ago concurrent with a catastrophic
> distributor failure, and I put a "Road Gear" (Autozone brand) AM/FM/cassette
> in the dash. (It's black, not silver like so many aftermarket radios, and has
> knobs and a "slide rule" display rather than dancing LED's, so it doesn't
> clash too much with the otherwise original dash.) Rather than cutting the
> car's wiring harness, I clipped the male connector from the dead radio and
> wired it to the pigtails of the aftermarket radio, so it just plugs into the
> female connector in the factory harness.
> 
> Any observations from wiring gurus on the list would be appreciated. Absent
> strong protest from more knowledgeable list members, this weekend Son and I
> will be swapping the leads, though.



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