Wetsounds on Gladiator tower

[Kstens73 2]

Installing Rev 8s on a 2014 233 with a Gladiator tower. Tower is prewired. Do the wires end at the head unit or are the bundled under the tower? If they are under the tower do you have to take off the side panels to access them? What is the best way to handle the situation? Thanks in advance

[boatnut 230]

I am thinking there are plugs up top and pop the plug out, and it will be attached to the wires

[truekaotik 458]

Gladiators have the wires zip tied at the base of the tower on each side, if no tower speakers installed factory. Pull the seat bottom and reach up or pull the forward 6.5 speaker in cabin, on each side, to access the wiring they have two pair speaker wire and light wire on each side.

Edited May 30, 2015 by truekaotik

[DarksideR 1,679]

Gladiators have the wires zip tied at the base of the tower on each side, if no tower speakers installed factory. Pull the seat bottom and reach up or pull the forward 6.5 speaker in cabin, on each side, to access the wiring they have two pair speaker wire and light wire on each side.

Unless you have Ramfill. Then, like me, it's almost impossible. The seat backs are bolted so even that requires a very long powered ratchet and incredible control/aim. I ran new speaker wire on my install. That wasn't exactly easy either. The hole for the wires is very small.

[truekaotik 458]

Yes unless your Ramfill^^ but it's same place just more work seat backs are bolted and can be removed easily actually.. Also a 233 will have more space and doesn't loose the speaker like the FX22 does

Edited May 30, 2015 by truekaotik

[DarksideR 1,679]

Yes unless your Ramfill^^ but it's same place just more work seat backs are bolted and can be removed easily actually.. Also a 233 will have more space and doesn't loose the speaker like the FX22 does

I'm 90% sure that it does lose the speaker as well. The cockpit area of the fx22 and sv233 are identical.

[DarksideR 1,679]

I'm 90% sure that it does lose the speaker as well. The cockpit area of the fx22 and sv233 are identical.

After a quick internet search on onlyinboards, I'm now 100% sure. The only ramfill boats that don't lose the two forward in boat speakers are the FS33&44 &SV244. The vents are much more forward in the hull. Guess Fineline hasn't wanted to build new molds for the FS22 and SV233. Maybe there's clearance issues.

Edited May 30, 2015 by DarksideR

[Kstens73 2]

Thanks for the info. My boat has ramfill so it looks like I will have to remove the seat backs to get at the wires. Only one speaker on each side on my boat.

[truekaotik 458]

Sweet! I've only done the 244's Dark thanks buddy!

Try removing the rear speaker and see if it helps?

Edited May 30, 2015 by truekaotik

[boatnut 230]

Oops sorry about the wrong info, I get screwed up between the gladiator and maximus or vice versa towers all the time

[DarksideR 1,679]

Sweet! I've only done the 244's Dark thanks buddy!

Try removing the rear speaker and see if it helps?

That explains it. Lol.

I did remove the speaker and could JUST get my fingers on the wad of wires, but didn't have the guts to blindly cut at the zapstrap figuring I'd definitely cut the wires!

 

Oops sorry about the wrong info, I get screwed up between the gladiator and maximus or vice versa towers all the time

No, you were on point. There is plugs at speaker mount locations that when pulled out SHOULD have the wires attached. The issue is that they're not run all the way to the head unit. They're balled up and zapstrapped under the tower base. Thanks for making things difficult Fineline factory worker.

[truekaotik 458]

Yeah we didn't have many do ramfill on their Centurions here till 2015.. Only messed with 3- 244's with it. Now new tower and set up...

[Kstens73 2]

I found the speaker wire bundled at the base of the tower but they are not open ended they head to the back of the boat. I took out the side speakers port and starboard and found two sets of connectors labeled CKPT speakes LT on each side not sure what these are. There is black speaker wire coming out of the tower connected to colored wire connected to silver and copper normal speaker wire. Wires on the port side tower come out of the tower base and head toward the back of the boat, seems like they should head towards the head unit which is 5 feet away. Any thoughts would be helpful, thanks

[boatnut 230]

You might ask fineline for a wiring diagram, or maybe dark got one with his boat

[DarksideR 1,679]

Don't point the wiring issue finger at me man! LOL.

I noticed the same sort of thing kstens mentioned of speaker wires heading to the back of the boat. I just said F this and ran all new speaker wires to everything.

[boatnut 230]

Ha ha ha ha, my maximus tower came with a wiring diagram, that showed what wire is for what