1956 wonderbar rear speaker harness

[JungleCadd]

WTB 56 REAR speaker harness and or rear speaker

[V63]

I belive that is just a single green wire.

I should have a new replacement speaker of correct OHM

[Cadman-iac]

  JC,

 You can make your own speaker harness since it's just one 18-gage wire. The bullet connector for the radio would be the only thing that might be difficult to duplicate. If I remember correctly though, you can use one of the universal crimp on one's that come with the blue insulator on it. You can cut the insulator off with a blade, then crimp the metal connector to your wire end and then solder it. The original wire and terminal doesn't have any insulator on it that I can recall. On the speaker end of the wire I believe it has a flat terminal, but I'd have to look again at my wiring to verify that.

[Cadman-iac]

JC,

I was just going through the parts for my car and thought I'd take a look at the wiring harnesses boxes, both the new ones I made and the original ones I copied from.

Here's what you need to know about the speaker harness if you want to just make your own.
The total length is 16ft 8 inches. This may be a bit long as my car's rear speaker was missing and the end of the wire had been cut, so I'm not sure exactly what type of connector goes on the speaker itself, and I left a bit extra wire just to be sure it was long enough.


Here's what the radio connector should look like. I took this one off of my original wire.



Also, I wrapped the wire where it runs under the carpet and shield with a cloth friction tape like the original one had.
From the very tip of the radio end to the beginning of the tape is 3 feet. Then it runs for 8 feet before it stops, and the rest of the wire is ran unwrapped.
And it is an 18ga wire.

Hope this helps you out a bit.

  Rick

 Edit:  I took a close up picture of the radio terminal, but I guess the resolution is too high because it doesn't want to load.