Ground short???? long

[Huw Powell]

> I checked the cables I had replaced this summer and everything seemed
> ok...alternator wires???
> There's a slight short in the + cable going from the alt to the fusebox and
> this cable shows a 74 Ohm resistance between the alternator connection and
> the battery + terminal....
> So tomorrow (or this week-end) I'll be replacing the BIG wire connecting the
> alternator to the fusebox....Do you guys think I should also replace the
> starter cables while I'm at this dirty task???

You might want to replace/check all the big high current wires at the
same time, and also clean/verify the ground connections (alt and
starter, EG, are their mounting bolts) and perhaps add another, nice
beefy ground cable to the engine from the battery.  What I do there is
leave the stock section from the tranny to the batt tray (unless you
want to replace that, too...) and run a nice 2 or 4 ga wire from the
battery to another tranny bolt.

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Huw Powell

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