Eddie,
You can't have too many grounds, IMhO. I don't have a 71 in front
of me, so I can't say that it's different. Battery grounds to firewall...
about an 8-10" cable is all. Engine grounds to body at the slave cylinder
bolt to corner of frame under passenger floor... about a 6" braided cable.
Additionally I've seen some short ground cables from right side
engine mount bolt at the plate to the mounting bracket itself on the frame
rail. Other 'modern" cars will run a ground cable from battery to body then
onto the engine someplace as a convenient connection using 1 component.
Remember, the engine is insulated by rubber from the chassis
except for the ground cables (good), accelerator, choke, tach (if fitted)
and speedometer cables (bad), temp gauge tube (bad), clutch pipes (up to
1275) (bad), and fuel pipe (948) (particularly bad).
Be well grounded on this good earth.
peter c
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At 12:33 PM 10/24/2002, esheffield wrote:
>Peter,
>
>I'm REALLY glad you posted this. That's another thing that struck me at
>the time I was pulling my engine - no ground strap. I meant to ask where
>one should go. Coincidentally I was missing one of the clutch slave bolts
>too. Where on the body should it connect?
>
>Also, where should the battery ground cable attach - mine (a 1971) is
>currently connected to the rear-most exhaust manifold stud. But I don't
>think that's right.
>
>Wonder where I've been getting my ground from? I probably don't want to
>know! Might explain why I get a pretty significant voltage drop (about 2
>volts or more) as the turn signals flash!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Eddie
>1971 Midget - "Bebop"
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