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| | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 14 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 14 | Can someone show me where the small ground wire on the negative battery cable is attached? I don't see a dedicated hole for a ground terminal screw on the radiator support or inner fender. I'd like to use the factory ground point.
Thanks! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 | Which truck? If you've got a "small" ground cable, your life is going to get interesting, and not in a good way!
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| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 | Many of the aftermarket cables both positive and negative have the secondary wire (usually about 10 gauge) coming from the battery connection fitting. Just because it’s there doesn’t mean your particular vehicle had one from the factory. Always tell us what vehicle your working on in EVERY thread you start. It will help us help you.ðŸ›
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 | That extra ground can be attached to any convenient body panel screw, or just scrape a spot down to bare metal and drill a hole for a big sheet metal screw. Electrons aren't picky about where they go on the way back to the battery, and since electric current approaches the speed of light, a few inches plus or minus on a car body makes no difference.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 Sir Searchalot | | Sir Searchalot Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 | If you really mean the "small" ground wire that comes with the big cable. I've never attached it to anything. I suppose there are gadgets to add under the hood that you could use it for someday. Wolf whistle horn?
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| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 313 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 313 | My 1966 C10 Pick-up and 1966 Suburban have it attached to the radiator support. | | |
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