...
Shocking horn button
Safety Car
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 4,270
Likes: 561
From: Macedonia Ohio
If the steering box was out of the car check to see if there is a lot of paint between it and the frame. I found this to be a problem not permitting a good ground to the frame. It usually happens when you have your arm on the window because that is completeing the ground.
Corvette Stories
The Best of Corvette for Corvette Enthusiasts
Top 10 Most Expensive Corvettes Ever Sold on Bring A Trailer
Brett Foote
10 Things Every Corvette Owner Needs (2026 Edition)
Michael S. Palmer
8 Most "Only Corvette Owners Understand" Quirks and Problems
Pouria Savadkouei
10 Reasons the C6 Z06 is Still A Performance Benchmark After 20 Years
Joe Kucinski
How Much Horsepower Every Corvette Engine "LOST" in 1972
Joe Kucinski
Top 10 DOs and DON'Ts for Protecting Your Convertible Top!
Michael S. Palmer
Top 10 Most Explosive Corvettes Ever Made: Power-to-Weight Ratio Ranked!
Joe Kucinski
150 hp to 1,250 hp: Every Corvette Generation Compared by the Specs That Matter
Joe Kucinski
8 Coolest Corvette Pace Cars (and Replicas) of All Time
Verdad Gallardo
Thread Starter
Race Director
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 10,977
Likes: 19
From: Canboro Ontario
Ok, maybe a dumb question or two. First, I could not see in the AIM, any reference or pics showing this ground cable, at the steering coupler. Next, if the two bolts holding the two flanges of the upper and lower coupler are both touching both couplers, would this not make a natural ground themselves ????
Tech Contributor
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 15,576
Likes: 118
From: Conroe Texas
The coupler is a masticated rubber device, so it doesn't naturally carry a current. There is a brass or copper strip that runs from one bolt hole to the other, on the coupler, and that is what creates the ground.
Team Owner
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 38,897
Likes: 1,926
From: Washington Michigan
The copper ground strap is internal to the coupler - you can't see it unless you really look for it; later couplers and Service replacements used a steel mesh inside the rubber/fabric laminations instead of a separate copper strap. Most of the junk "rag joint repair kits" just use a rubber disc, and completely ignore the need for the ground path between the upper and lower flanges.
You're getting a slight shock because you have better ground potential than your steering shaft does.
You're getting a slight shock because you have better ground potential than your steering shaft does.
Thread Starter
Race Director
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 10,977
Likes: 19
From: Canboro Ontario
So what about the bolts that go thru the rag joint to each side, do they not ground each side of the coupler flanges ???
I can't find any of those ground straps, any chance, someone has a spare ????
I can't find any of those ground straps, any chance, someone has a spare ????
