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Wiring Harness Question

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There is no reason to run new speaker wires. You can splice the existing ones. Disconnect the radio and amp first, and check the pin positions for some clues as to what wires are for the speakers. Use a single battery across a pair of wires to see if it makes the the speaker pop. IF it pops, note which speaker poped and what the wire colors were.
 

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I'm not to familar with the fox body stero's, but in my old 95 that had he mach 460 system you had to buy this specisl box in order to run the stock amps off a aftermarket deck? Try that ask about this device when you go back? peace




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Here is what I currently have not connected:|

Gray Plug

Orange w/ White Stripe - Positive Dimmer
Orange - Illumination
Blue w/ White Stripe - Amp Turn On
Blue - Antenna

Radio
Blue w/ White Stripe - P. CONT
Blue - ANT CONT
Brown - MUTE

I was told that I dont need the MUTE since it just shuts the radio off when you talk on a wireless headset, I dont need ANT CONT since that is for a power antenna, and P. CONT because that "triggers" the antenna or powers it. I am just going to try to wire the blue and blue w/ white stripes together and give it a whirl...hey it cant hurt anything.




EDIT: I connected the blue to the blue/white like Bennett said and I noticed that when I was plugging the speaker plug in I heard static...so I backed it out and what do you know everything works! But it doesn't work when the plug is snapped together...only if I back it out some.
 
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I'm just going to cut off the plugs and try to wire it directly, I am unsure of what wires are the Left Positive/Negative and Right Positive/Negative and what the fifth wire does though...i'm going to go searching around maybe Jr's site will help me out there.

Looking from above the plug there are 5 wires that go in order of:

Purple w/ White Stripe, White w/ Red Stripe, Blue w/ Black Stripe, Black w/ White Stripe, and Green.

Which ones do what? My friend said that one of them controls the fader?
 
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Update:

For some reason this stupid idea I thought up with worked...

Theres 5 wires going into the harness, 8 coming out. 1 of those 5 is for the fader so its not needed, for me anyways. What I noticed was that if I took all of the positives OR negatives for all of the speakers and hooked them up to the 4 wires going into the harness that it worked fine...so I hooked up the 4 positives from each speaker and taped the negatives so they wouldnt touch anything and left it that way and it works fine. I have no idea why...all I know is that it works.
 
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