Godfrd824

Ok, so I had the kenwood system with navigation in a nissan, and It worked great, easy to work on all that, I pulled out the radio, hardrive, brain, and harness out of the nissan to put in a 99 WJ, I have ran the wires, conected the kennwood radio to all of it's components, then I connected the white and red wire from the WJ harness, to the red wire from my kenwood unit, and grounded the whole thing, it doesn't turn on, at all, I'm trying to find the yellow wire on the WJ, but I can't find it, is there another wire that goes to the battery, right next to the white and red one, there is a red and white one, is that it?


Any help woold be appreciated.

ol"blue

http://www.wjjeeps.com/audiowire.htm

Godfrd824

Thanks, but that's what I've been using, but It doesn't show where to connect the yellow battery wire, what I don't understand is, why It has 2 red and white cables labeled fuse, and fuse+. I still need clarification on this.

taterguy05

could you not ave ordered an aftermarket wiring harness

ol"blue

I think, looking at the following diagram, that one is constant hot for the memory and the other is only hot when ign. is on. DCP-Wiring.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Godfrd824

Thanks a bunch, I went and wired it like that diagram showed, and it turned on, next comes the hard part, wiring the speakers.

ol"blue

Well I'm glad we got that straightened out.

a1racer

this is the best option but not always the way to go with older cars and what not a lot of time the wiring is already messed up but it would be the easy way if the wiring is still there and not torn up.

a1racer

do you have a multimeter that has a ohms setting this will help find the speakers quick and it will make your life easier when you need to do this kinda work again. i dont mess with wiring with out one that way you dont short something out

ol"blue

He knows which wires are speaker wires. He was concerned about the two hot wires, which we've taken care of. But that's a good general tip for wiring.

Godfrd824

I do have a multimeter, this is the way I was thinking of doing it, run the Kenwood harness, to the WJ's harness, into the Infinity Amp and from the amp to the speakers, everything after the amp will be stock.

a1racer

OK so you have an amp in the system well you can either bypass it or use it. the best idea is to pull the drivers seat and you will have access to the amp for reference and blues wiring diagram will help out as well. i would bypass the amp though it will sound better plus the amp is a few years old so you never know how long it will hold up. but either way just check you wires before firing it up and make sure the connectors are good so you dont have to chase down a wire later. sorry i did this for many years so i have my own ways of doing stuff so do it how ever you want. but let us know what happens

Godfrd824

Ok, got it done on Sunday, used the amp and everything. I have a few questions though.

Since I bought the WJ, the steering wheel radio controls never worked, anyone have any idea why?

And this is way off topic, but, when I put the WJ in D from park, it makes some clicking noises, it drives great though, what are these clicking noises.

ol"blue

The steering wheel info.http://www.wjjeeps.com/steering_sw.htm
Are the noises kind of a ratcheting sound? If so mine does it too.

a1racer

you may need an adapter to make the steering wheel controls work with your new radio but not all will work has it had a aftermarket radio since you bought the jeep if so that is why it has not worked.