Radio Speaker Install

[Ronniek]

Installed a really nice radio & 2 speakers this weekend. It all went well except for the speaker on the drivers side. There is a vertical metal support too close to the charger plug-in. Had to trim about an inch off of it to get the speaker to fit. Painted the speaker covers tan to match the cart. They came white & nothing on the cart is white.
You notice that the speakers are not even (right one is closer to side). If I would have put the right one in the same spot as the left I would have had to cut that side support also. Didn't wanna do that.
This is a marine style radio & speakers. Hopefully this will help on the CD skipping on bouncing & moisture.

[dawgn86]

Looks good Ronnie

how did you hook up an antennae?

[Ronniek]

Nothing fancy. Tire-wrapped it to the passenger side roof support. Ran wire in the same place as the other wires to the radio. A person could drill into the vertical roof support (sounds weird but I don't know what else to call it) and feed the antenna wire down thru it. I just tie-wrapped it down and into the storage compartment. Then thru a hole that I drilled in the side of the compartment. It's dark in there. so it's not very noticeable :)
PS; If you notice all the hair on the console, it's the Pug I have :)

[rodknocker]

Looks good! I struggled with the antenna mounting as well. I bought one of the flexible rubber (?) antenna from auto parts store. I mounted mine under the front cowl horizontally. A small piece of alum angle for a mounting bracket fastened with 2 self tapping screws to the cowl frame. All hidden and does a good job for signal.

[yurtle]

Here's my powered antenna. Works good over an hour outside Atlanta.

It's powered by the stereo power antenna out.

[Gonkulor]

Originally Posted by Ronniek

Installed a really nice radio & 2 speakers this weekend. It all went well except for the speaker on the drivers side. There is a vertical metal support too close to the charger plug-in. Had to trim about an inch off of it to get the speaker to fit. Painted the speaker covers tan to match the cart. They came white & nothing on the cart is white.
You notice that the speakers are not even (right one is closer to side). If I would have put the right one in the same spot as the left I would have had to cut that side support also. Didn't wanna do that.
This is a marine style radio & speakers. Hopefully this will help on the CD skipping on bouncing & moisture.

Looks good Ronnie! If you want to stuff the gap because of the side post by the recepticle stantion that is preventing your speaker from being flat. Just go get some plexi or some type of poly material from the hardware store and make yourself a shim. Shims hide a lot of sins.

Looks good man.

[Ronniek]

Thanks, I want to do something to fill the gap.