[Excaliber]

The ground wire on my ERA got to loose sometime back and the lights and stuff got 'wierd' on me. Then one day I lost my clutch slave cylinder hydraulic line. A plastic line wrapped with a metal spring like protective covering. Well THAT spring like protective covering BECAME my electrical system ground! Eventually it actually heated the spring enough to melt a hole in the plastic hydraulic line! The starter always worked good because it was direct ground to the battery. All other loads had to travel through the clutch slave cylinder line! Frame ground may be not be good enough as the exhaust pipes could be isolated from the frame via the rubber motor mounts! In addition, what kind of frame back to body back to battery does the car have? Big enough to 'weld' with?