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bugedd

Jedi Knight
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So I just got the motor back iin the car and all hooked up. I put the battery in and turned it over and had a strange spark in the engine bay. The oil line for the gauge touched the body and sparked.
I am running the car with negative ground, stock generator and such. Does that mean I need to polarize the generator again, or is something else going on here? I am pretty sure all is hooked up properly. There isn't much to screw up :smile:
 
Yep- ground strap.
I will often put a redundant ground strap around one of the motor mounts, one end to the top of the mount, one to the bottom of the same mount.
BillM
 
Ground strap is on, actually never took it off the body. But maybe cause it wasn't tight on the negative terminal?? I just had both sitting on the battery, not tightened down.
 
Chassis to ENGINE ground strap. Down near the starter or as Billm suggests, the motor mount trick.

If you neglect to run an engine-to-chassis ground strap you will soon have a melted throttle cable or worse.
 
huh, don't have one of those. Guess I better pick one up tomorrow.
 
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