2002 explorer sport trac hu

yes, but as i said, you may have to remove all terminals from the housing and then replace them into their respective positions. an additional thought, are the terminals on the 8-pin connector laid out 2 x 4 grid style (90deg) or is there a slight stagger to them? i believe metra has a harness that is of the staggered variety, no rcas just wires. you could solder rca ends on those. mark

That will probably be my best bet. I'm starting to get a better picture of this now. So I would have to get 3 female rca on the 8 pin amp harness in there correct pin orientation. pin 1 ...RED / black sub- ----------------RCA- to amp sub input pin 2 ...BROWN / orange sub+---------------RCA+ pin 3 ...light GREEN / WHITE lf- -----------------RCA-LF SPKR AMP input pin 4 ...dark GREEN/ violet remote gos to Blue/White AMP REM on hu ? pin 5 ...dark blue / YELLOW lf+ -----------------RCA+ LF SPKR AMP input pin 6 ...light GREEN/ violet rf+ -----RCA RF+ SPKR AMP input pin 7 ...light GREEN/ orange rf- -----RCA RF- SPKR AMP input pin 8 ...not used How do you read the pins is there a standard? Because when you say pin position 1 it could be read top right to left then bottom right to left? It also depends how your holding it... Sorry to ask dumb questions Here's what the Metra 70-5519 looks like. 8 Pin ford Amp 16 pin harness Missing two do you know the pin number that are missing? Thanks Ween I owe ya a beer.... Dosman

the terminals look staggered on the 8-pin. mate the connector to the vehicle. see if the RED / black lines up with the shield of the rca, that will be your pin 1, next to it in a row would be 2, 3 and 4. 5 through 8 follow on the next row beneath...1 opposite 5 etc. the missing terminals on the 16-pin are 3 and 4...shouldn't be needed on your aftermarket head unit.

The search gods were good to me last night I noticed on the 2003 Ranger wiring diagram that the part number for the connector was C290a

and when I did a search.

http://ww2.justanswer.com/uploads/paynlessauto/2009-09-28_013229_pioneerconnector.pdf

I think this will be all I need.

I will wait for it to warm up a bit and then I will head out to the garage. It's cold here right now...LOL

Again thanks for your help.

Dosman

if you can get the 290b connector also, that will be the amplifier input harness, at the rear of the radio.

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Plug C290b It's on page 2 . as you stated before

pin 1 ...RED / black sub- ----------------RCA- to amp sub input

pin 2 ...BROWN / orange sub+---------------RCA+

Do you know why Pin 1 is listed as RX signal and Pin 2 TX signal.

Or is that just Fords way of confusing things.

Thanks

Dosman

i think it's ford confusing things...look at how the connector at the amplifier is labeled, circuit numbers are the same, descriptions different.

Done, pulled out and dusted off my soldering iron and turned my C290b 8 Pin 2x RCA into 3X RCA. Used my multimeter to test polarity and every thing is checked and looks ready to go. I used a dental pick and small screw driver to push the pins out,that was no easy task. found an RCA plug and soldered them on. so it looks good to go. It gets dark here before I get home from work so I will wait till the weekend to give it a test. I will let you know how it go's Again thanks for your help. Dosman

Success, went out and plugged it in and it was perfect. It sound much better then the factory hu. Thanks for your helpDosman

Wow, I hate to resurrect this thread from the dead, but Im having the same problem. I bought the 5701 harness, which I think is bad. Looks like I need the 5519. The problem I was having was that my drivers front speaker wouldnt turn on when everything was connected. ANy ideas?