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TR6 Negative Battery Cable on TR-6

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davidk

davidk

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Took advantage of the latest shipping deal from TRF and bought a correct negative battery cable among other items. Now I don't know what to hook it up to. There are two connectors to be connected somewhere on the engine or chassis. Can someone explain, or does anyone have a picture showing where to connect them? Thanks for your help.
 
David,
One of the eyelets gets bolted to the rear engine plate at the transmission bell housing and the end eyelet gets bolted to the body. Sorry I do not have a photo available.
 
Roman-

I was not aware of the two ground leads. I'm not
aware of many things that are missing from my TR6.

I have my Western Auto neg cable to the engine block.
I installed a #8 wire from another part of the engine
block and soldered it to the body metal.

Will this set-up function as well?

thanks,

d
 
I have mine set up to the body and then a ground strap from the engine rear to the body.
 
Dale,
The set up you have should function alright but you may consider doubling up on the #8 wire to the body. Another thing you may want to do is to use a eyelet terminal on the ground wire and bolt it to the body. Soldered connections may fail under the stresses induced by the Triumph suspension and the Puerto Rican crater strewn trails you call roads. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
Dale, run one of the multi strand ground cables from the engine front mount (4 bolts) to one of the bolts on the cross member, (the one that's in the way to do anything up front). The TR4's had one there that bolted from the mount to the frame in a hole just below the inner fender, yours being an early car may still have the hole in the frame. Moss sells a replacement for $10, but surely you can make something up. You really need the multi strand because of all the movement.

Wayne
 
Tried to connect the "correct" negative battery cable on the TR-6 today. Despite the good advise given above I could not make any of the connections reach or work. Does anyone have a picture or two? Thanks for your help.
 
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