Cleaning the chassis grounds issue??
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Cleaning the chassis grounds issue??
So today I decide to check and clean all the chassis grounds, but I only made it through the 2 behind the headlights, the one by the battery, the one inside the left rear wheel well and the 2 in the interior in front of the doors before it started raining. All of them looked good with no corrosion but I used a wire brush to clean all the contacts on the wires and the mounts including tearing apart the splice packs, lubed them all up with some dielectric grease and reinstalled.
My problem is that now when I turn on the rear defogger I get an audible "pop" through the front speakers. Why is that??
I made sure everything was making good contact, didnt leave anything off either. You think this will go away if I do the other grounds tomorrow. It's not a huge deal just kind of annoying.
My problem is that now when I turn on the rear defogger I get an audible "pop" through the front speakers. Why is that??
I made sure everything was making good contact, didnt leave anything off either. You think this will go away if I do the other grounds tomorrow. It's not a huge deal just kind of annoying.
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Dielectric means electrical insulator.
It will prevent corrosion, but not a good conductor. Other dielectric materials are ceramic and glass.
I would spray electrical cleaner on the contacts and just put them back together.
It will prevent corrosion, but not a good conductor. Other dielectric materials are ceramic and glass.
I would spray electrical cleaner on the contacts and just put them back together.
Last edited by TEXHAWK0; Jan 30, 2010 at 07:06 PM.
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So think about what you are saying. If you put a grease that was conductive in a bulb socket, where both contacts are right next to each other, that would be a short circuit. The best contact between two surfaces conducting electricity is metal to metal.
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Now I am realizing that I've been wrong for all those years. Damn, I am glad that I always used it sparingly.
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