Emg 81/85 wiring problem?

hey everyone,
I recently installed a pair of EMG's (81/85) into an explorer and i have encountered a small problem. Only one of the pickups seems to be working, which im fairly positive is the 85 in the neck position. When i switch to the other pickup im just not getting any sound. However i just discovered that if i put my distortion on and turn it up loud enough i can faintly hear some sound from the non-working pickup.
I have gone over the wiring a few times and i cant seem to figure out what i did wrong. Has anyone ever encountered anything like this, or do you know what could fix it? Any help would be gratefully appreciated. thanks for your time.
-Wyatt

You can check out EMG's website, they have several diagrams that can help you out. They're active, so I assume they would need different wiring than passive pups. Could also be a low 9v.

Maybe a short, or a loose wire, but really there are many things that can go wrong with electronics that I cannot diagnose it without seeing it. What I would do is to go through the whole installation again step-by-step (without actually cutting or soldering anything) and see if you might have soldered a wire to the wrong connector or anything else is out of place (I've done it myself a million times; last time I wired the wrong wires to the switch in my strat-copy so now when the switch is in the neck position the bridge pickup is active... but at least I got a tone control out of it)