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S urprisingly this process was relatively quick. After the deadening was completed, I used the two holes I drilled previously to secure the panel and then drilled out the remaining holes for the rest of the mounting screws.

I would recommend deadening between the outer facing panel of the door and the panel in which the speaker is mounted too.

Drill two holes on either side of the panel and place the panel to the side.

Place the sound panel onto the door where it would be positioned.

Here's the steps I took to deaden the doors and prep them for speaker mounting:

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And if you want the full panel covered and are willing to pay the ~20% markup for the templates I would absolutely recommend these. That said, I've heard a lot of great things about SoundSkins precut dampening kit. It also saved me a ton of time doing it this way. I would say I went with about a 65%-75% approach which, in my opinion, I'll see probably 85%-95% of the deadening benefits. Mainly because of the aftermarket sound panels that provided a ton of rigidity to the door, and naturally deadened it as well. When I deadened the doors, I chose not to do a comprehensive covering of the inner panel.

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I was able to neatly zip tie the bundle and secure it above the driver's feet under the dash and then along the driver kick panel out of sight.Īll of the RCA and speaker output wires were then ran along the channel between the floor board and the door frame where they fit very nicely. I also ran the remote wire to the amps, and an additional wire for the AXDSPX's subwoofer control knob to the steering column. This was one of the most challenging parts of the wiring because there were so many thick wires. This required a total of 7 speaker wires to be ran up and through the dash along with two separate sets of RCAs (4-ch and 2-ch). Starting with the center dash, I ran all of the required wires up and through to the center dash below the factory midrange speaker.

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The first thing I set out to do with the truck was get all of the groundwork wiring ran so that I could install the amplifier racks.

One thing worth noting in this diagram, however, is that the amplified FL, FR, RL, RR signals from the amps in the rear were wired back to the dash behind the head unit, where I tapped back into the factory wire harness via the Axxess AXDSP-X's included T-Harness. If you haven't already read these articles, I recommend doing so! They are what set the context to this article.Ĭheck out all related articles to this F-150 Custom Stereoĭiagram/mapping of all of the components I planned on installing, where and where I planned to wire them

All of this work has already been completed prior to this article. This included wiring prep, building the amplifier rack, cutting and building the subwoofer enclosure and more. In part 2, I walked through all of the preparation I did before heading down to the truck to install all of the components. You can find a list of all of the parts that I used throughout this build on my 2021 F-150 Stereo Buildsheet. In part 1, I detailed out all of the various decisions and research I did in order to decide on the products and ultimately purchase everything that I needed to make this installation happen. In part 1 and 2 of this multi-series stereo install, I went through the details of planning out my system and preparing all of the components for installation. Tuning with the AudioControl SA-4100i RCA Mic & Axxess AXDSPX.Setting Gains with SMD DD-1 Distortion Detector.Setting the Factory EQ Flat via FORScan.

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