ground wire or earth straps

[humph67]

Messing about in the garage yesterday , I decided to take the shroud off the bottom of the engine.

( Forester 2010 D ). There are two braided ground straps left & right side of engine . One of these 

had completely corroded away . After reading how important these are and the effects the electrical

circuit I replaced it with a much stronger copper cable .Wonder why there so flimsy and I guess are

only replaced when things go wrong.  

[bitman]

yep, yep, costs; as copper is more expensive then metal

 

in most cars these braided ground straps are way to small and putting more strain on the Battery. it's a good mod to change them for thicker and better ones

[Adam]

Many electrical problems on older cars can be traced back to a bad earth. I have a home made earthing kit on my GT-B and it has improved things greatly. Everything from radio reception to steering feel is better (the GT-B has electric speed sensitive power steering).

[stants]

Hi adam, ro you have any pictures of where you've run the grounds, I've been looking at doing a diy job too as the earthing kits are extortionate and I could do jsut as good a job

[Adam]

No photos to hand, but from memory I ran a cable direct to the Battery from each of the following...

1 cable per cylinder head (the GT-B has coil on plug ignition).

Inlet manifold.

1 cable per suspension tower using the same connection points as various OEM earth cables.

I'm sure there were six but I can't remember the other one at the moment!

[stants]

Cheers for info, hunt round the internet found one for a reasonable price, I'd have had to factor into the price of a diy build a soldering iron as mine has seen better days so it worked out the same price :-D