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 May 4 2008, 10:32 PM
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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 |
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May 6 2008, 03:06 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 647 Joined: 30-December 03 From: Paris, Texas Member No.: 74 |
Kevin is correct. That is most likely the problem. When building my CMC car, I had to add a big grounding strap from the engine to the chassis to stop from burning the small ground strap from the factory.
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cccbock Harness Ground Hot May 4 2008, 10:32 PM
trackbird You could be missing an engine grounding strap (I ... May 5 2008, 02:01 PM
cccbock QUOTE (AllZWay @ May 6 2008, 11:06 AM) Ke... May 9 2008, 11:09 AM trackbird I'd just put it on. Insurance. Better to have ... May 9 2008, 01:59 PM cccbock QUOTE (trackbird @ May 9 2008, 09:59 AM) ... May 9 2008, 03:02 PM trackbird Bolt it to something solid with a good clean conne... May 9 2008, 03:15 PM CrashTestDummy Back in the 'old' days, late '70's... May 9 2008, 05:34 PM |
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