No center speaker. What's next?

[utherjorge]

I pulled the dash pad down to find that I'll easily swap in the new 3.5s that I got.

However, there is merely the cut out for the speaker, but no speaker. Is there a coiled up wire in there somewhere that was put there stock for me to find, like Christmas? Or am I putting something in there new for the first time?

Thanks!

 

[454Sub]

They all came with the center hole cut out, it just depended on if you had a MONO or STEREO headunit from the factory. I have never personally seen a MONO unit, but the speakers are in the corners of the dash, and they are something around 3.5 or 4in rounds.

 

[utherjorge]

Ok, so there are no wires there just waiting for a speaker, per se, that you know of?

 

[KansasTwister]

Ok, so there are no wires there just waiting for a speaker, per se, that you know of?

There wasnt on my 83. The old 70s trucks had a 4x10 center speaker, just run two feet of speaker wire from the headunit up to the new center speaker your building. Will work just fine.

 

[k5ryder]

I replace my outter 3.5" speakers in the dash. Before I threw the old ones away I checked to see if both of them would fit in the center speaker hole. Sure enough they did. Now I have four speakers up front and then I had some 6x9's installed in the side panels between the front and back seats. It sounds pretty good.