[cccbock]

I was diddling around this afternoon and just changed my oil and was running the motor for about 5 minutes. This is a 96 LT1 car.

I inadvertently touched the ground coming out of the harness which is mounted to the radiator support to the drivers left of the radiator. This ground appears to come from the underhood fuse/relay box near the ABS. It was HOT to the touch.

Just for grins I opened the fuse/relay box, and all the operational relays (fans, ABS) were also hot (fans were on at the time). The metal area around the actual ground was NOT HOT.

Q1: Should either the ground, or the relays be hot?
Q2: If not, do you think making a better ground here (clean up and remount) will fix the HOT situation?

Bock (not an electrical guy) Folken

[trackbird]

You could be missing an engine grounding strap (I think your engine has been out once or twice, but I don't know this). If so, it could be grounding through "alternate means" (finding whatever grounds are there). I'd not expect it to be hot to the touch, if it is, it's too small. I'd probably clip a jumper cable on the block and then to the negative on the battery (or another good chassis ground) and run the car again. See if it still gets hot. If it no longer gets hot, I'd add a ground strap (or two) from the chassis to the engine.

Just my thoughts.

Kevin (former avionics technician) G.