Ok, so what does the ground wire that goes from the valve cover to that bold next to the headlight do? A friend of mine broke it off yesterday working on his car... I didn't know what to tell him. The car runs fine, and the headlights are working fine... It's not something that's hard to fix, but i've just gotten curious thinking about what it does.
thanks

 

It's just another ground. Replace it if you can, or better yet get bigger wire. I've heard it can make your stereo and headlights work better if you upgrade.

 

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thats very strange... mine came loose once and ran like total ****... major power loss... and my clock and cd player flickered on and off

 

yeah just get some 8 gauge amp wire works great and looks really clean too...then you can just get clamp connectors at any hardware store to fit it.

 

you should replace it.
how do you break a wire while working on your car anyways? what was he doing??

 

I think he said that he was trying to tighten the bolt that it goes on by the headlight and just broke the wire... i don't know, after a while those kind of things can just get brittle... get bent back and forth too many times and decide to go one day. My check engine light came on once, showing the coolant temp sensor... turned out to be the wires that go into the sensor just broke... Anyway, I went to a stereo shop downtown and bought him some 8guage stinger wire for $.50.
thanks

 

Definitely replace it.

I took my car to a mechanic, once, and he knocked off a ground wire that apparently exists underneath the car somewhere. After a month and a new distributor, I visited the crxresource and some nice guys suggested this was the problem...
Tach jumped, car stuttered and eventually it would die and not start... all from a disconnected ground wire.

 

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I took my car to a mechanic, once, and he knocked off a ground wire that apparently exists underneath the car somewhere. After a month and a new distributor, I visited the crxresource and some nice guys suggested this was the problem...
Tach jumped, car stuttered and eventually it would die and not start... all from a disconnected ground wire.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Probably the Thermostat ground. Its not under the car, there are none under the car, but its sort of in the back. I hear that messes up your car a whole bunch.

 

thats the charging ground i think
one of the threee grounds inside the hood