that is a ground strap and one end goes to the firewall and the other to the rear bolt on the top of the head between the top pan and intake
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| Author: | 73dart_swinger [ Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Braided Steel Strap |
I have a braided steel strap that has eyelets on each end. One end attached to the firewall towards the top on the passenger side. Where does the other end attach? I have many picture from when I disassembled the car but none of them show the attachment point for the other end of the strap. Any ideas? 1973 Dodge Dart Swinger. |
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| Author: | terrylittlejohn [ Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:48 pm ] |
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that is a ground strap and one end goes to the firewall and the other to the rear bolt on the top of the head between the top pan and intake
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| Author: | DusterIdiot [ Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Depends... |
Quote: that is a ground strap and one end goes to the firewall and the other to the rear bolt on the top of the head between the top pan and intake
It also can go from one of the tranny bolts to the firewall (that way in many V-8 mopars... and is that way in my '67 valiant for some reason...)-D.Idiot |
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| Author: | rock [ Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | You can replace it with a better ground cable... |
Because good grounds are so critical, when I rewired my vehicle I just replaced the braid strap with a battery cable made with a bolt hole end on each end. I ran it from a block-to-tranny bolt to the firewall. If you consider the contact area available to ground on the strap ends as opposed to the braid cable ends you may conclude as I did, that if one plans for long term corrosion and oxidation losses through the connections, the ;arger surface area on the cable may provide a better long term chance of maintaining good ground. rock '64d100 |
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| Author: | Jopapa [ Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You can replace it with a better ground cable... |
Quote: Because good grounds are so critical, when I rewired my vehicle I just replaced the braid strap with a battery cable made with a bolt hole end on each end. I ran it from a block-to-tranny bolt to the firewall. If you consider the contact area available to ground on the strap ends as opposed to the braid cable ends you may conclude as I did, that if one plans for long term corrosion and oxidation losses through the connections, the ;arger surface area on the cable may provide a better long term chance of maintaining good ground.
I used welding cable and copper solder-on ring terminals for mine rock '64d100  Overkill? What overkill? 
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| Author: | Russ [ Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:41 pm ] |
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Hello, my two cents worth: I used bonding straps off of old electrical machinary that i have access to, which i used when recently installing a wiring harness into a 58 Chrysler powered street rod. My belief is that there cannot be too many grounds, therefore one from batt neg to body, two or three from chassis to body one each from engine to body and chassis and so on. I once had a early honda that drove me crazy until it proved to be lack of proper grounding, coupla grounding straps and it charged normally |
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