My valve cover ground was smoking and the car stalled and wouldnt start back up! Cranks and i get nothing! I moved the battery to the rear do you think the grounds arent grounded good enough or could it be something else?!

 

Dam Ive never heard of that.

Is the surface where its grounded to and from clean? take a wire brush to both

maybe when you moved the battery to the rear you made one of the grounds

longer than before, I dunno Ive never heard of that unless a ground was

completely not connected so Id clean the spots for a good connection

 

Do you have a fuse inside the battery box for the lead? I'm going to guess that the lead is grounding out somewhere or ground out somewhere and something got fried as a result.

 

i am going to go home today after work and clean grounds and maybe replace a few! I dont think anything could be grounded out! I will see what happens!
Anybody else with any ideas? The ground was tight by the way!

Ohh maybe to much resistance to ground? I was talking to friends at work and they brang that up!


Modified by 1CAMcan at 5:32 PM 12/26/2003

 

I last swap had a smoking ground at two places at the vavle cover ground and the battery - ground was some ****

I don't know wtf caused it though

 

did you fix it?

 

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we just moved it and it fixed it.

 

Did you use equal size wire for grounds and lead?
Did you use at least 4 gauge (2 or 0 would be best)?
Did you ground the battery to bare metal in the back and use a good size bolt that goes clear in to the metal of the car?


After I moved my battery I had some grounding problems. It just seemed like no matter what I did for a ground it wasn't quite good enough to keep all of the whine out of the stereo and what not. I grounded to the chassis right by the battery, then ran a ground wire to from that bolt to several other points on the car clear up to the ground at the front where the battery original grounded. The stereo whine totally went away as did my other problems. It really shouldn't have made a difference because the car should have been able to carry the ground fine, but it definately helped.

I had a ground start smoking really bad on an old prelude swap I did. The alternator was grounding out on an AC hose braket that was attached to the radiator, and it started making all types of **** smoke. I would check to make sure the lead wire isn't touching anything that it shouldn't be.