1977 Ground Question
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1977 Ground Question
Hi All,
I am following my wires and I have a mess that will get straight, eventually. I pulled off all of the black ground wires (they weren't grounds) on my wipers, blower for the heat-A/C, etc and I hooked up direct grounds to them temporarily and everything worked.
I traced a thin hot red wire that went down with the thick red wire that goes to the starter. This thin red wire was spliced to a thin black wire and has juice. Something is wrong there. I touched it to the big red wire and the starter started cranking.
Can someone please tell me where the main ground junction is on this 1977 Vette?
I think that someone might have connected the ground wire to a pos connector near the starter.
Thanks
Jack
I am following my wires and I have a mess that will get straight, eventually. I pulled off all of the black ground wires (they weren't grounds) on my wipers, blower for the heat-A/C, etc and I hooked up direct grounds to them temporarily and everything worked.
I traced a thin hot red wire that went down with the thick red wire that goes to the starter. This thin red wire was spliced to a thin black wire and has juice. Something is wrong there. I touched it to the big red wire and the starter started cranking.
Can someone please tell me where the main ground junction is on this 1977 Vette?
I think that someone might have connected the ground wire to a pos connector near the starter.
Thanks
Jack
Last edited by xkeots; May 29, 2009 at 05:39 PM. Reason: oops
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In this thread is a pic of the 14g black ground wire
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...-question.html
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...-question.html
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The battery - cable & there is another ground cable from front starter mounting bracket at engine to frame.
That would be the wire to the solenoid for starting.
Not a good idea to be randomly touching wires when you don't know what they are ...
I touched it to the big red wire and the starter started cranking.
Not a good idea to be randomly touching wires when you don't know what they are ...
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I am just saying how amazed I am with what someone did before me.
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In this thread is a pic of the 14g black ground wire
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...-question.html
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...-question.html
I was under the car and I just took the black wire off of the center pole of the solenoid (Pos) and put the ground onto a starter bolt.
Jack
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I knew what is was for.....................................
I am just saying how amazed I am with what someone did before me.
I am just saying how amazed I am with what someone did before me.
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Hi G,
Yes I have a few different ones from printing one from this site and in a service manual. I wish that there was a color one. Last year by accident, I found online, that someone put up a schematic for a 1961 Cadillac and every wire was in the color that it is. I was able to print it up into quite few sheets of paper, align the pages up and I now have for my 1961 cadillac a color schematic that is about 2 ft X 3 ft.
Jack
Yes I have a few different ones from printing one from this site and in a service manual. I wish that there was a color one. Last year by accident, I found online, that someone put up a schematic for a 1961 Cadillac and every wire was in the color that it is. I was able to print it up into quite few sheets of paper, align the pages up and I now have for my 1961 cadillac a color schematic that is about 2 ft X 3 ft.
Jack
