kilkenny

Here's the deal.

2006 Ford F150
Factory Sirius with just an "AUX' button
I have the FRD04-aux from pie installed (I know it's not compatible)
I do not use Sirius and probably never will.

I want to use my portable music through the stereo so I have the RCA adapter installed. There is a box installed below the radio that I believe is the Sirius box? If I unplug the 12 pin connector to that box slightly and position it just right I can listen to my ipod just fine and it sounds great. Would anyone know why? I'd like to do something to that plug (like jumping) to get this to work without having to find just the right amount of connection needed to the existing Sirius box. Can I pull the plug out and jump certain wires together to make this work? Or can I pull some of the wires out of that loom? Any ideas on what each of those 9 wires (in the 12 wire loom) are doing? I don't have a wiring diagram for that.

GATORB8

The 16 pin at the radio isn't still plugged in is it? I don't know how else it would affect anything.

Here's the wiring breakdown:
Pin, Color, Function
1, LB-PK, MS CAN+
3, BK-LG, Ground
5, VT, Sat Rad Signal L+
6, GY, Sat Rad Signal R+
7, TN, MS CAN -
9, LG-VT, Batt+
10, BK, Ground
11, LG-RD, Sat Rad Signal L-
12, OG-BK, Sat Rad Signal R-

kilkenny

Not sure what you mean. The PIE adapter is plugged into the back of the radio now.

There must be something in that 9 wire set that's blocking the transmission of the ipod. Again, they say it's not compatible with factory Sirius, but if I hold the loom out just right it works great.

When I select AUX on my radio I only get the 3 SAT stations..which I have never subscribed to. Now it seems I can get my ipod sound through those stations if I can bypass a wire or two. If I pull the loom completely out, it reverts back to radio. So I believe I need to trick the radio into thinking it has a good connection to the Sirius box. Not sure which wire(s) that would be based on what you're saying. My wires don't necessarily match the colors you have there. You sure that's for 2006?

GATORB8

Yeah, it's from the all-data diagram for the 06 (connection at the 12 pin at the sat receiver).

The receiver pulls battery positive before the radio, but otherwise I can't figure out how the radio would even know it exists it the 16 pin isn't in the back of the radio.

You could try cutting the sound signal wires (pins 5,6,11,12) so there is no sound coming from the sat receiver but any other signal is still there.

kilkenny

That's also what I was thinking. You wouldn't happen to know an easy way of pulling a pin our of a loom would you? I'd like to avoid cutting wires. Or maybe there's an easier way to bypass a wire??

GATORB8

Depends on the connector, I'd have to look at it.

I still have no idea how the signal is getting to the radio since it's disconnected.

kilkenny

If I disconnect the SAT box while on SAT 1 (having pushed the AUX button), the radio says it can't find the audio connection and then reverts back to the radio station it was on. If I pull the plug out slightly, the connection will still be there but for some reason it also hears my ipod. That's the connection I'd like to try to make "almost permanent".

GATORB8

Is the 16 pin stock connector plugged into the FRD04-AUX? If not, what is the second connector for in this picture?

kilkenny

Of course its plugged in. The FRD04-aux is plugged into the back of the radio and the end that was plugged into the radio is now plugged into the FRD04-aux.

The 12 pin connector into the Sirius unit is the one I'm unplugging slightly and getting the ipod to work.

I think we're on the same page now? I just need to figure out which wires to disconnect on that Sirius loom.

GATORB8

Oh, okay the FRD04-Aux is acting as a pass through for the Sirius module then. That 16 pin has the exact same circuits as the 12 pin on the receiver (except the receiver power and ground).

Ok, you should be able to just cut the wires or break off the pins in the FRD04-Aux then. Do you see the four colors from the satellite radio signal in my post above going into four of the sixteen pin connector coming from the truck? Those should be all of the audio signal.