Highway Star
04-11-2010, 02:32 AM
Hank, I've seen some of your electrical knowledge spread around before, and I was hoping for a little personalized tech advice from you on this.
I'm curious about the grounds I have ran in the engine compartment of my '72. I ran these wires a few months ago:
Battery to chassis #2/0
Block to chassis #2
Body to chassis #10
All of these wires are connected to the same point on the chassis, towards the front of the engine compartment, using an existing bolt that fastens part of the steering to the frame rail. I scraped to bare metal and all the connections are tight.
I'm wondering if I need a ground braid from the engine to somewhere on the body/firewall. Why? I don't know.
I guess I have two questions.....
I was also trying to correct a mis-wired HEI coil, that was being fed by two wires, a yellow from the solenoid AND a pinkish (brownish/reddish) wire from the firewall...
I ran a new wire from the fuse panel IGN blade and put it in the same loom as the signal wire for the tach. This is right, huh? The weird thing is that the radio switched power wire was already plugged in there. I moved it to ACC. That IS where it goes, isn't it? :(
Thanks...
I'm curious about the grounds I have ran in the engine compartment of my '72. I ran these wires a few months ago:
Battery to chassis #2/0
Block to chassis #2
Body to chassis #10
All of these wires are connected to the same point on the chassis, towards the front of the engine compartment, using an existing bolt that fastens part of the steering to the frame rail. I scraped to bare metal and all the connections are tight.
I'm wondering if I need a ground braid from the engine to somewhere on the body/firewall. Why? I don't know.
I guess I have two questions.....
I was also trying to correct a mis-wired HEI coil, that was being fed by two wires, a yellow from the solenoid AND a pinkish (brownish/reddish) wire from the firewall...
I ran a new wire from the fuse panel IGN blade and put it in the same loom as the signal wire for the tach. This is right, huh? The weird thing is that the radio switched power wire was already plugged in there. I moved it to ACC. That IS where it goes, isn't it? :(
Thanks...