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I was poking around in the boot and realized the big wire going through the wall separating the battery from the gas filler pipe goes through a metal flang ( or what ever it is called). Is the metal piece suppose to be visible from the battery side or hidden behind the armorcor material? I checked the Ebay cars for sale and half were each way. The Anderson/Moment book shows it hidden.
 
Visible, centering a rubber grommet to protect the battery cable from fraying.
 
OH some do it right and others make it functional and attractive.--Keoke--- :laugh:
 
Wel, if you think about it, I wouldn't want the exposed metal ring housing the grommet to be sitting right beside the hot lead of the battery. That ring is well grounded with 3 self tapping screws going into the bulkhead panel. That is likely why the factory covered the whole thing with a simple Armacord piece with a cross slit cut into it to allow the battery cable only to come through.
 
Well Rich if the screws go to GND at the bulkhead the armacord isn't going to help much is IT.?????
 
Keoke said:
Well Rich if the screws go to GND at the bulkhead the armacord isn't going to help much is IT.?????
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What about the rubber grommet? It shields the metal from the battery cable. Armacord is for decoration and obsorbing errant gas fumes.
 
Most likely the cable, with the grommet, was installed before the boot interior, armacord, was installed. Thus the armacord would be slit to go around the cable and subsequent grommet.
 
Patrick67BJ8 said:
Keoke said:
Well Rich if the screws go to GND at the bulkhead the armacord isn't going to help much is IT.?????
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What about the rubber grommet? It shields the metal from the battery cable. Armacord is for decoration and obsorbing errant gas fumes.
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You got the message mate.--Keoke-- :laugh:
 
Johnny said:
Most likely the cable, with the grommet, was installed before the boot interior, armacord, was installed. Thus the armacord would be slit to go around the cable and subsequent grommet.
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ONLY way I know to get the cable through the armacord.---Keoke-- :laugh:
 
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