This is my first time to mount a sub (have to learn sometime, eh?), so bare with me. The screw holes, when i look through them, i see the foam/rubber that extends from the surround. If i stretch the circle with the screw holes, i can barely get past the outer rim of the basket; making it impossible to screw the opposite side in. SO my question is, how exactly do i screw (or bolt, undecided) the thing in?

I know to pilot/predrill my holes, its just i dont know how to safely do it.

Take the gasket off of the sub, and use a screw or something of that nature to poke the holes through the edge of the flat part of the foam on the surround...your not going to hurt it, so long as it is the part that is on the mounting flange of the basket...

The gasket should be lined up, the surround is tooled so you have to poke holes through it. This is a tell tale sign of a sub has been mounted before, you can see the holes in the edge of the flat part of the surround, if it has not been mounted before then there will be no holes..

Whatever you do do NOT drill holes through the basket and gasket...i've seen kids do that here lately...granted i laughed but please don't do it.

Thanks!

-Nick

and this is where my subwoofer illiteracy slaps me in the face. You said to take the gasket (thats the part with the holes in it for the screws, right?). And then you told me not to screw through the gasket... well why wouldn't i screw through it? the holes are there right? or is my terminology way off? lol

Edit: Scratch that, i went and looked on the underside and found the pilot holes. I guess it will be better once i get screws in, but for now it seems like when i try to line up the holes, the gasket is to wide. If i try to press it on one side, the opposite side extends out too far.

Edited May 1, 200817 yr by QuestionMan

Gasket is the black thing that is made of rubber that is around the sub.

You can put the screws through it, through the holes that are in it. But i suggest that you poke the holes through the edge of the surround first...and PLEASE use a screw guide...

Otherwise your are going to be right back here asking about how to fix a hole in a surround because the screwdriver slipped

Nick your so wize!!! See ya when you get to vegas!!! You should hit the bunny ranch bowchicabowwow

I broke a vase and took the shelf with it today when playing the beats for my van song you sent. Wife saw it first she was pissed! sorry for the jump

Ok i understand everything that you've told me.. but i do have another ?. The gasket, when i press on it to surround the sub firmly, the opposite side that i press on has a gap, as the gasket is too big. My guess is that this goes away for the most part when i actualy use screws in all of the holes (am i right?)

Don't know what your talking about...all the gaskets are formed on the same die so they are all exactly the same...

It should just snap right back on....there's no reason for it not to