sat radio antenna

soos wrote:

Powelligator wrote:
(Original post edited with more pictures and a better description.)

This is a simple modification for the late-model Ford Super Duty.

1. Antenna DC3Z-10E893-A $31.00
2. Cable BC3Z-19A397-A $49.00

Result: Works great when the truck is pointed in any direction.

Procedure: Disconnect factory Sirius/GPS antenna cable under the driver's side dash, about where the clutch pedal would be if these trucks were so equipped. Cool thing about this is that you DO NOT need to access the back of the factory 8" touch screen head unit, there is a convenient connector right where you need it. In the photo below the connector is the yellow plastic thing with an RF connector inside.

Connect up the new cable that you got in the parts list above, and run it through a hole in the firewall into the engine compartment. There's easy ways to do this as the factory gives us a grommetted wire harness right adjacent to the Sirius/GPS connector, that's visible in the bottom of the picture above.

Under the hood, run the cable up under the plastic shroud where the windshield wipers park. Drill a couple holes through the shroud (using the GPS antenna as a guide) and connect up the two cables. Optional: Add split loom tubing for additional wire protection, and you can re-use the factory plastic mounts that come with the cable.


Enjoy your Sirius radio with the camper on the truck as you head on down the road for more adventures! Good Luck!

Joe

Joe, did this allow the GPS to function as well? We are headed thru Canada to alaska for the summer. I don't mind going without the radio but I'd really like the GPS to function and right now its spotty with the TC on.

thanks,

I'm not Joe but I did the same on my Ford truck that I had then and yes it does fix both. We went to Alaska last summer from AR and had both GPS and Sirius all the way. There well be times that you well loss the Sirius in the far north as it is just getting to low on the horizon to receive the signal. When heading north in AK I would lose it and then heading south there it would drop in and out but this is not because of the installation it is just the way the satellites are set up in the far south above Texas.