Xmas Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 Ok, now starting to wonder. I would like to know how I can find out if my 1995 XE has an OEM amplifier? If so; where would it be located at? I want to rip it out. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwipete Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Inside boot lining on right hand side above the rear wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95shakinPF Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Actually, check with unccpathfinder. IIRC there are 2! 1 Front and 1 rear! I still have mine hooked up so I dont know there locations exactly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyhayseed Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 According to the wiring schematic, it depends on your speaker set-up. There's only one amp for the 4-speaker set-up and two for the 6/8 system (this includes tweeters). The FSM shows the front amp mounted vertically in the dash behind the stereo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95shakinPF Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 This front amp is apparently the one giving me my headaches. My front speakers come on and off at THEIR convenience. I have re-traced all my wiring and found them to be fine,so apparently its the amp cutting in and out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyhayseed Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 This front amp is apparently the one giving me my headaches. My front speakers come on and off at THEIR convenience. I have re-traced all my wiring and found them to be fine,so apparently its the amp cutting in and out! It looks like a PITA to remove. Please let us know how it goes. Mine work fine, but that's a problem in itself. I can turn my Sony head unit past +3 volume without it overpowering the speakers. It's very hard to find a happy medium between too quiet and pounding. I'm afraid to disconnect them though. I don't know how it will effect the factory speaker wiring and I don't want to have to reroute the whole system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teknogaeque Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 This front amp is apparently the one giving me my headaches. My front speakers come on and off at THEIR convenience. I have re-traced all my wiring and found them to be fine,so apparently its the amp cutting in and out! I have exactly the same problem in a '94 XE. I have 8 speakers (4 crappy ones and 4 tweeters) and I never even knew there was a second amplifier for the fronts. That would explain a *LOT!* My goal is to rip the stock amplifiers out completely and rewire directly to the head unit. Mine work fine, but that's a problem in itself. I can turn my Sony head unit past +3 volume without it overpowering the speakers. It's very hard to find a happy medium between too quiet and pounding. I ran into this, too, when I redid my stereo. The front/rear/left/right speaker wires in the wiring harness actually go to the amplifiers. Switch from your powered speaker outputs to line-level outputs, and they'll work fine. To say that differently, I got RCA-to-bare-wire adapters and connected the line-outs from my deck to the "speaker wires" in the harness, and the stock amplifiers are much happier with that signal. The volume control on the deck is now normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyhayseed Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 To say that differently, I got RCA-to-bare-wire adapters and connected the line-outs from my deck to the "speaker wires" in the harness, and the stock amplifiers are much happier with that signal. The volume control on the deck is now normal. I'll give that a shot. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirkg Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I'll give that a shot. Thanks! I just replace my stock unit & speakers on my 95 SE and this worked for me http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/Ite...amp;i=142C4NN02 Hope this helps Dirk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Pickles Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I've got a 94 with the 8-speaker setup. I started stock with a stock amp in back (which I cut the wiring and bypassed eventually), and I believe another stock amp up front that was killed when the stereo was installed. Now the only stock parts left now are the rear tweeters, but I've run a few different wiring configurations along the way. I now have some aftermarket tweets up front, Infinity Reference main speakers, Rockford Fosgate Punch 500.2 for the main speakers, and an Alpine 1000 watt amp with a 1 farad Monster capacitor to a single Fosgate HX2 DVC 12" sub. First was a new stereo head unit (Eclipse) and the 4 bigger speakers (Infinity's), with stock amps. Volume control was an issue, as has been noted by others. Next was pulling the factory amps, cutting the harness and testing by trial and error to re-route those stock speaker wires around the amp. Finally I bypassed all factory wiring, and ran new and heavier gauge wire all the way around. Anyways, enough run-on by me, sorry. Just saying, been there, done that. The last version, simply running all new wire, is by far the best as far as quality, and in all honesty, if you're already going in there to do any surgery (remove stock amp or even just put in an aftermarket one), it will most likely be just as easy or even easier to simply run new speaker wires altogether, rather than messing around with the stock wiring and cutting it up. You'll end up with bigger gauge wiring for better sound and quality. Plus, you could return the system to stock much easier if you wanted to for some reason, as the stock wiring isn't cut up into confetti. Just my 2 cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95shakinPF Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) Well apparently the stk amps are grounded thru the mounting tabs that hold them in place. I have removed both, and sanded the painted metal down to bare metal where the brackets hold and replaced the amps. Works perfectly now!! Hope this helps others,Good Luck!! Easy enough to get to: Remove inside pass side rear trim(top and bottom) and both amps are held to body by phillips screws towards rear hatch!! Edited March 1, 2008 by 95shakinPF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daver123 Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 (edited) I agree with Mr.pickles the best sound will come from bypassing the stock system entirely. The little stock Clarion amps(both front and rear speaker amps are located in the rear on the passenger side above the wheel well) are a hindrance with a new deck and new speakers. They put out less power then most of the new decks out there. Remember these amps were designed to power crappy paper cone stock speakers. Running new wires to the front and rear speakers is a bit of work but getting mostly any panel off in these trucks is like two screws and a couple of clips at the most, it took me about 4 hrs to replace all the wiring but it was worth it. Now the stock tweeters will not work anymore as the high pass modulators that send the higher frequencies to the tweeters are built into the stock amps. I'm currently using dual channel speakers so the tweeters are built in, but i will eventually change to a component system. Oh one heads up for anyone running a sub put the power cable that runs to the sub on the opposite side of the truck that you are running any audio signal cables. The high power in that cable can cause distortion in the audio cables, but you know I'm just picky. Edited March 2, 2008 by daver123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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