humph67 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitman Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stants Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stants Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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