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pioneer 1900 deck on 91 ford e350

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Printed Date: April 30, 2024 at 10:48 PM


Topic: pioneer 1900 deck on 91 ford e350

Posted By: 2/3rdscobra
Subject: pioneer 1900 deck on 91 ford e350
Date Posted: September 30, 2007 at 10:33 PM

I am having a devil of a time installing this deck into my E350 chassis RV.  I paid for a Scoche (sp?) wire harness which did not have the wires set up correctly.  I used the wire guide noted on the site, however I still can't get any sound.  The ground switched 12v and constant 12v are hooked up correctly.  I believe I followed the wire schematics to a T, but no sound.  The only thing I can figure is the OE deck is @ 2 ohm and my deck is between 4 to 8 (noted on the box).  Is there anyone who can shed some light on this for me.  I easily have 3+ hours on this deck which should have only taken half an hour.

Any help will be appreciated.




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Posted By: sarcomax
Date Posted: October 03, 2007 at 1:35 PM
Sometimes the rv conversions do not follow the traditional wiring schemes. How many speakers does it have? Sometimes there is an amp that needs to be turned on. Did you connect the blue wire to anything?

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Posted By: 2/3rdscobra
Date Posted: October 04, 2007 at 12:20 AM

It has 4 speakers, two door and two in the rear.  There is a center speaker grill opening on the dash, however there is no speaker there, but what looks to be an amp (it has heat sinks around the perimeter).  The chassis doesn't list this stereo as a premium system, which would have the amp, however it has some of the hardware the premium systems has.

I was told by a friend that on the OE system, the neg to the speaker (ground) acts as a common ground and as such, will sometimes blow out the speaker output of a traditional DIN unit (damn Fordsposted_image) since the front and rear speakers outputs ground to the same speaker as opposed to each speaker, if that makes any sense.

I have pretty much given up and I'm taking it to a stereo shop to have them install a inexpensive CD player with whatever harness or module is required.  If you happen to know what I will need, then maybe I can let them know I know what is needed to save myself from being duped.





Posted By: sarcomax
Date Posted: October 04, 2007 at 10:42 AM

I would bypass the factory amp which takes the weird ford wiring out of the system. Sounds like you have the right idea about taking it someplace and having them do the work.



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