[par4tom]

With my blue tape on the window, I took a piece of MDF and used a drill press to drill a hole perpendicular to the faceplate. I then took some old golf shafts I had (you can use a wood down, piece of iron, whatever you want...just make sure it is straight). I liked the golf shaft as it was lightweight and long enough to aim at the piece of blue tape.

Having never done speaker alignment like this before, I have to admit I stumbled a bit. You will need a partner. To mount the speaker face plate and aim the shaft at the blue tape, took me a bit of practice. Once I got the shaft aimed properly, I cut some small pieces of MDF to use as legs to the faceplate and then hot glued (Or C.A. glue is better and faster) the legs in place.

Here you can see my alignment with the mid/tweet. I forgot to take a picture of the midbass driver alignment. However, it is the same thing.

The second picture is of the drivers side. I had gotten the hang of this by the time I got to this side of the truck. You can see both golf shafts aimed precisely at the blue piece of tape. Once this was done, I glued a few more legs of support and double checked my work.

One word with regards to how far up into the kickpanel I placed my speakers and where they need to go. First, the tweeter/mid needs to go closer to the occupants than the midbass driver. For the midbass driver, I had wanted to actually mount this into the existing cowl vent opening, but in doing so, this would have blocked most of the driver from my aim point on the opposite side window. I settled on having about 80 percent of the speaker visible to the blue tape on the opposite side. The mid-tweet MUST BE 100% visible due to the frequencies they produce...

I would say this entire process took me a couple of hours...but it later paid huge dividends in quality of sound.