joebobclark
02-03-2007, 04:52 PM
Its been crappy and raining off and on all day here at the house, so I decided to fix some wiring issues with my head unit today. Thought I'd share....
At the last meet at Toby's, I was has having an issue with the headunit cutting out at high volume. Thought it might be a bad connection at the headunit since I had butt connected them up when I put it in, and then had to shove 8ft of wire in a .5cuft hole, lol.
Little background info, 1995 Cadillac Eldorado, radio receiver in trunk, bought the factory plug wire, made my own harness to run to the front of the car. I know I could have run my wires for power, ground and speakers, but I wanted it to be easily returned to factory if desired.
Head unit is a Kenwood KVT-M700 indash and seperate DVD player in the glovebox.
I went to RadioShack and picked up some pin connectors and a pin removal tool. Went with a single 12 pin connector, but they had all different size ones for any project.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC002111.JPG
Pulled the unit and wiring, removed the excess wire that I didnt need. About 4ft worth.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC002161.JPG
Started to pin up the wires on the radio brain side.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00210.JPG
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00212.JPG
Finished product. The pigtail is the power, ground and parking brake wire (wired to ground) that runs up to the screen.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00213.JPG
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC002141.JPG
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC002151.JPG
Now, the mess that was in my dash. I think this is where my problem was.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00217.JPG
After wiring the plug.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00219.JPG
And connected together. Much cleaner and better connections with the ability to easily disconnect and remove if needed. These pigtails are for the power and ground of the DVD player.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00218.JPG
At the last meet at Toby's, I was has having an issue with the headunit cutting out at high volume. Thought it might be a bad connection at the headunit since I had butt connected them up when I put it in, and then had to shove 8ft of wire in a .5cuft hole, lol.
Little background info, 1995 Cadillac Eldorado, radio receiver in trunk, bought the factory plug wire, made my own harness to run to the front of the car. I know I could have run my wires for power, ground and speakers, but I wanted it to be easily returned to factory if desired.
Head unit is a Kenwood KVT-M700 indash and seperate DVD player in the glovebox.
I went to RadioShack and picked up some pin connectors and a pin removal tool. Went with a single 12 pin connector, but they had all different size ones for any project.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC002111.JPG
Pulled the unit and wiring, removed the excess wire that I didnt need. About 4ft worth.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC002161.JPG
Started to pin up the wires on the radio brain side.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00210.JPG
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00212.JPG
Finished product. The pigtail is the power, ground and parking brake wire (wired to ground) that runs up to the screen.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00213.JPG
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC002141.JPG
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC002151.JPG
Now, the mess that was in my dash. I think this is where my problem was.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00217.JPG
After wiring the plug.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00219.JPG
And connected together. Much cleaner and better connections with the ability to easily disconnect and remove if needed. These pigtails are for the power and ground of the DVD player.
http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/medium/DSC00218.JPG