i got a 90 civic and the fuse that turns on the radio and clock keeps burning out i just got a new radio and i don't know if the wiring for the speakers is correct since the previous owner cut the harness. exam. the rear speaker is brown with a white and red with a yellow line which would be positive and negative

 

http://www.installdr.com/Harnesses/HA-Wiring.pdf

What is the make and model of the "new" HU?

Disconnect the HU, make sure none of the stock radio harness wires can short out to each other or to anything metal, [ground] in the dash, see if fuse still blows, and do not replace with a bigger fuse then what is called for.

Keep in mind there are three 12V+ leads...

1 - Yellow W/red tracer, acc. [switched power]
2 - White W/yellow or blue tracer, constant power, [hot at all times]
3 - Red W/black tracer, illumination, [hot when park or head lights on], not shown in link above. 94

 

the hu is a jvc kdg230 and i checked everything again and again to see if nothing touching or put wrong and its all correct and the fuse keeps blowing

 

Did you disconnect the HU and see if the fuse still blows?

When does the fuse blow?

1 - As soon as you install it?
2 - As soon as you turn on the ign.?
3 - As soon as you turn on the HU?

The above info will help determine where the problem is. 94

 

i did disconnect the hu and it still blows. it blows as soon as it makes contact it sparks and blows it wierd **** cause when i had my rockford hu in it a couple months ago it didn't do this ****

 

Then the problem is not the HU, you have a short in the circuit, if it blows as soon as you try and install it, [with ign. switch off] it is the constant power circuit, [hot at all times] You will need to check anything else that is on that circuit, try unplugging the clock, and the lighter, [if it is on the hot at all times circuit]
What else, other then the HU and clock, is not working? 94

 

other than that everything else works i already had the lighter unplugged so i i'm gonna unplug the clock and put another fuse to see what happens

 

look at the radio harness and see if u see the yellow wire grounding or missing shielding. how was the radio installed? two smart harness or some hackjob using masking tape to hold the wires together? try disconnecting the aftermarket radio harness and see if it still blows.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by perseverance &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> try disconnecting the aftermarket radio harness and see if it still blows.</TD></TR></TABLE> Ditto the above, I should have made it more clear when I said "Disconnect the HU" I meant including wiring, [go back to stock] if, as also touched on, an adapter harness was not used and the stock radio plug has been cut off and the aftermarket HUs harness "hard wired" to the radio harness, remove it and make sure none of the stock radio harness leads can short to each other or anything else, if fuse still blows problem was is not the HU or the wiring, move on to unplugging the clock, if however the fuse does not blow, then there was a short in the wiring or it was mis-wired. 94

 

i disconnected the clock and put a new fuse in and the radio works now

 

don't plug the clock back in. 94

 

it looks like its going to be a pain in the *** to find the short in the wiring of the clock

 

if you have access to a digital multimeter...then use it to test the wiring to see which wire is the culprit.... or just hit up a junkyard for a new clock.

 

i just bought 2 10" rockford p1's with the rockford p200-2 it was a package deal. my question is the amp is 200 watts rms on one channel at 4ohms bridged. how would i wire up the subs to run the 200 watts rms to each sub

 

What the ohm of the speakers? And are they svc or dual dvc

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by lrcrx90 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it looks like its going to be a pain in the *** to find the short in the wiring of the clock </TD></TR></TABLE> If you unplugged the clock and the fuse no longer blows you have already found the short, it is in the clock, get a new clock. 94

 

the subs are 4ohm svc and as far as the clock i'll be getting it tomorrow