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Offline silvercalibra

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check your earth strap
« on: February 03, 2012, 23:46:49 PM »
 Cally refused to start on Monday - a rare occurance in all the years I've been driving it . The  fault was traced to the earth strap which had completely corroded through [ don't they make them out of corrosion resistant metal?] anyway a new earth strap and the car is good as gold.  The interesting thing, to me at least, is that for the last few years the engine had intermitently "hunted" at idle maybe once or twice on a run - i'd always put this down to a sticking idle control and just never got round to looking at it but with the new earth strap the tick over is rock solid [ at least so far] - hopefully two birds with one stone.
Whilst I'm on does anyone know of a good [ and reasnably priced] supplier for oil cooler pipes [ early c20xe] as I noticed these are starting to leak.
Cheers
Phil
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Re: check your earth strap
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2012, 00:12:53 AM »
I replaced my earth strap as part of my install with 0 guage audio cable and plated lugs so mine should out last the car lol.
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Re: check your earth strap
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2012, 01:23:16 AM »
Quote from: Butcher on February 04, 2012, 00:12:53 AM
I replaced my earth strap as part of my install with 0 guage audio cable and plated lugs so mine should out last the car lol.

Where is this earth strap...
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Re: check your earth strap
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2012, 06:32:12 AM »
Quote from: Dajanitor on February 04, 2012, 01:23:16 AM
Where is this earth strap...

Mine loops from the battery negative to the inside of the wing, only about 8" long iirc then there is one that runs to the engine block, on the V6 it bolts to the front of the block near the oil filter (it does on mine anyway)
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Offline silvercalibra

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Re: check your earth strap
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2012, 07:43:03 AM »
on my c20xe  its fastened to the end of the gearbox. In my very non mechanically minded brain I had no Idea it would affect the smooth running of the engine so much - i figure what finally killed it is when the last time i used it before it wouldnt start, my lad used the heated seat for half an hour [ normally they are never used] and the engine began to hunt up and down like a good un. Next time i tried to start it nothing at all. i figure the the drain from the heated seat must have finally fried the last few strands . [Does this make any sense or am I talking bollox?]
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