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RE: positive ground/negative ground

To: "'John T. Blair'" <jblair@exis.net>, british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: positive ground/negative ground
From: "Kerr, Paul AAF:EX" <Paul.Kerr@gems7.gov.bc.ca>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:20:35 -0700
I'll go one further than john and say I guarantee it is negative ground. By
1973 the British car industry (i.e. BL) had long given up on positive ground
system.  

-----Original Message-----
From: John T. Blair [mailto:jblair@exis.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 11:09 AM
To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: positive ground/negative ground


>OK, dumb question time, is a stock 73 TR6 a positive or a negative ground?
>
>  The reason I ask is I recently installed one of those battery isolation 

>cut-out switches which specifically required a negative ground system. 


Michael,

  I'll almost garentee that it is a negative ground system.

However, to prove it to yourself, start at the battery.
Follow the cable from the positive terminal - it should go to
the starter solenoid.  The cable from the negative terminal 
of the battery should go to the eng. block.

If it is opposite of above, then you have a positive ground
car.

John

 
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