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Old 09-05-2015, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
It's not a strap. It's a skinny little black wire. There is no frame to engine ground strap, and if you put an inductive ammeter around this skinny little black wire you'll find a good bit of the current for loads that are grounded to the frame are actually passing through this guy.

Patrick,
Concerning this wire. I read somewhere else in the from that you installed another ground wire from the manifold to this same location as the black wire. Was that in addition to the black wire or instead?
As far as doing this test, was that with the car running and progressively turning on all the accessories one by one and you watch your amperage grow the more you turned on.
OK,. so I only have a multi-meter, no inductive ammeter. Can I just break the connection and run it thru the multimeter to get the reading?
Thanks...Dave
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