<VV> Still having electrical problems

[shortle]

You can never have too good of a ground. I always add extra grounds all over the place to help avoid electrical issues. On just about everything electrical. The challenge is in finding where to mount them.
Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301


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>From: LonzoVair at aol.com
>Sent: Feb 26, 2012 8:17 AM
>To: cooperj123 at msn.com, virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: Re: <VV> Still having electrical problems
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>In a message dated 2/25/2012 8:28:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
>cooperj123 at msn.com writes:
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>Hello All,  My '65 Monza sedan is still having an electrical  issue and I 
>am checking to see if anyone else has experienced a similar  problem. First- 
>thanks for the advice so far!  <snip> 3- The copper  ground straps from 
>engine to body were in very poor shape- have been replaced  and ground is now 
>ok. <snip>
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>Jim (and everyone else),
>The three or four little copper straps that ground the engine shroud to  
>the body are for radio noise suppression only. If you got your car or FC  
>without a radio, it didn't come with the straps... also, if you DID get a  
>radio, you also got a capacitor (a.k.a. condenser) installed on the voltage  
>regulator and the coil (or if an EM, on the generator and the coil)... to  the 
>best of my knowledge, all other grounding was done through the factory  
>wiring harness or at the negative battery cable where it attached to the frame  
>(on EMs) or the small pigtail on the LM ground cable. 
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>Someone more knowledgeable than me needs to correct me if I'm wrong...  
>Ned? You did some schematics... what say  you?
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