Topic: 1995 yj sound bar wireing

[chardrc]

i recently got a stock sound bar from a 1995 yj and am trying to wire it up but don't know which wires are positive and which ones are negative on the stock plug since my jeep is a 1990 and has different wire colors and doesn't have that plug... thanks in advance for any replys

[chardrc]

not to change the subject... but i messed up with my wiring on my radio and smoked it.... and there is now no power coming to the radio wires and i cant find a fuse for it.. is there another fuse box other than the one on the firewall on the drivers side? i am lost hear without wireing diagrams that show the radio wires.

[oldjeep]

I've got wiring diagrams from a 94 Wrangler and 90 Cherokee, and they are both similiar.  Fuse in the fuse panel to the radio.  Power to the fuse comes off a set of contacts in the ignition switch.  Seems like if you had fried that out that there would be a lot of things not working.

I can email you the wiring diagram for the sound bar if you like.

[oldjeep]

Here's a link to the wiring diagram from the 94 FSM.  The ones they call Halo speakers are the ones you are interested in.
http://oldjeep.com/images/94XJ_8W.jpg

[chardrc]

thanks for the wiring diagram.. exactly what i need... other than a new radio.... the radio i was trying to use i got for free with the jeep since the radio in it was fried because of water in the dash. and this radio was about as good as everything ive gotten from that guy...flaky. so its off to best buy tomorrow to get a new radio for a decent price that hopefully wont go running away on me.

ow and the reason i wasn't getting power to the radio was that the radio smoking out upset the corrosion on my selonod making my hole jeep lose power... so today was a zero progress day.

[oldjeep]

Might want to consider a marine radio if you are having moisture problems.  They are fairly cheap if you are not looking for something fancy.

[chardrc]

well after almost a year i finally bought a new radio 2 weeks ago and got it in today.. and no white smoke.. now i can drive my jeep with more to listen to than the motors struggling ,  ( sorry for bringing up an ancient thread but i thought it was hilarious that i did this 1 day short of being a year after the first one i put in and fried.) o and thanks again for the wiring diagram

[oldjeep]

Only a year, that's not bad.   I've got projects I started 5 years ago that still arn't finished

[jfrabat]

Dont feel bad; I work in Audio Marketing for Sony, and I STILL fried my radio (and I am SUPPOSSED to know what I am doing!).  Granted, it had nothing to do with the installation, but rather from trying to fix something else (I was replacing the rockers, and it started raining, so I used one of those blue tarps to cover the engine bay, and completely forgot that I had pulled out the rubber thing that protects the wire loom from bringing water into the dash, and because all the water from the tarp was runing onto the hood, it all ended up flowing on top of my stereo).  Luckily, I got a new (better) stereo for free.

Felipe

[chardrc]

that's how the first radio in my jeep went (the one before i owned it) old owner tells me stories of him driving it in the rain and watching the water flow through the gages and the radio.... .... its definitely nice having a radio..  and its 1 more thing checked off the list..

[jfrabat]

and its 1 more thing checked off the list..

Yeah, but given the size of our lists, that's what?  0.000001% of the total list done? 

[oldjeep]

that's how the first radio in my jeep went (the one before i owned it) old owner tells me stories of him driving it in the rain and watching the water flow through the gages and the radio.... .... its definitely nice having a radio..  and its 1 more thing checked off the list..

If you fry that one out, Cherokee radios plug right in and cost about $12 at the u-pull.  Not fancy but it works fine (and I have a place to play my ancient tapes)