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Last year I installed a new Pioneer head unit into my '93 Chevy (Gladiator Conversion). It was working great and a few months later I installed new speakers in the rear (4 speakers) and left the OE ones up front (I'm not removing the dash!). Everything was okay until I was leaving for work one morning and then the stereo starting crackling almost like when you start to lose a station, and boom it quit working.

I double-checked my wiring and all was fine. Power, grounds, speaker wiring, etc. I thought maybe the head unit was bad so I bought another of the same unit, but nope it doesn't work either. All I get when I turn the stereo on is a small "pop" sound out of the speakers. Nothing from any radio stations or the CD player.

Not sure what happened...I'm stumped.

I may take the van to a local stereo shop or drive up to PA to Capt. Kurk's place so he can look at it.

I finally had enough fartin' around with a "broken" stereo so I took it up to "Capt" Kurk Collis to look at it. Last night he texted me and said that when I installed the rear speakers the connections rubbed up against what was left of the factory roof grounding them out. All he did was turn the speakers upside down and that solved the problem. DERP!