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Originally posted by MrPants
can this cause a problem? i have a crappy sony that the PO installed. seems very mickey mouse and ive had intermittent starting problems for some time
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I had poor starting problems with my car when the bulkhead earths were playing up (poor idling, poor charging, poor starting).
Do you find that the firewall earth mount gets very hot? Mine got so hot that the rubberized cover heated up and peeled off.
Despite a good earth from battery to chassis the earth from the firewall to the brown leads were poor. I cleaned this up - so the brass around the M8 mounting thread was polished and this made no difference. I'm thinking the thread may be a nut that's brazed in and it might crack over the years - there's no other reason why it wouldn't conduct properly.
I used the mount to anchor an earth braid to an alernative mounting on bare steel. See the pic. Cleared up all my probs. Sounding like SoCal now with my earth obsession.
