Well, I checked the fuse, and it was fine. Checked all my grounds on the fenders and they were fine. I checked the power wire with a voltage tester and found out it was getting power. FInally I decide to check my ground wire. The splice looks fine, but my dad threw the idea of testing it, just in case, by running a wire from the metal casing to the battery, and what do you know.. it was the ground. I was a bit puzzled, but then I thought, maybe I didn't splice something right. Apparently I mixed up 2 wires, which caused me to splice the ground with power antenna wire on the adapter harness. So, I spliced in a terminal on the correct ground wire, and then I screwed a sheetmetal screw on the frame of the radio. All fixed. Sounds pretty good with the Pioneer 6x9s too.

I guess when I originally installed the head unit, somehow the real ground wire was touching either the metal dash frame or the radio frame from being pushed back in that opening for the head unit which caused it to work. All in all, I feel pretty stupid, but I have a working radio again.

In about two hours, Im gonna take it to the pasture for a test drive of the fixed up front suspension .

 

Double post..