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Try removing that ground wire on the antenna, and clean up the antenna mount really well. You want your grounding to be through the antenna mount itself. With that ground wire you may have created what's called a "ground loop", which will do bad things for your reception.

VERY nice, gentlemen! :beer: This is the right approach on these old gals - take a good solid lead to a new distribution panel, and take power from there for any new accessory. Fuse the main power lead, or better yet, as shown above, use circuit breakers, then fuse each load separately at...

I'd be really leery of running that radio head off the fuse box. These truck are senior citizens, after all. How many power leads come off your radio? Typically you'll see either two (ignition sense and power) or three (ignition sense, keep-alive, and power). You can safely run ignition...

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Based on the speakers you are running, I'm concerned about your power supply and ground. You've got a 10" sub-woofer, and two 6.5 inchers. The 6.5s are probably rated to 100 -150 watts or so, the sub is easily rated to 250-300, maybe 500. If you are trying to drive them anywhere near their...