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    Quick alternator question

    I wanna replace the wire giong from my alternator to my battery.
    From wat i can tell that wire that you can easily see from the engine compartnment covered by a rubber cap is the positive one going to that fusebook next to the passager front headlight. From there it runs to my battery.
    So am i right to assume thats the positve?
    Also where is the negitve on the alternator i can't seem to find it....
    thanks
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    Reason why i'm changing the wire is because i made the main cable too short when i put in my battery terminals and i added on a 4 guage onto it but its done in a ghetto way by means of twisting it on and duck taping it. So now i wanna do it the right way b4 it gets too cold.
    So i found the cables to do it at in autozone and i figure i'll do it soon
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    1337Rolla oh my

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    sounds right to me but you can do an easy check with a voltmeter. the car will run without the alternator just fine for a few minutes so, you could pull off the terminal and compare the voltage to the block. also for the grounding.. I believe that is done through the engine block, hence why there is no terminal. but don't quote me!!!
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    hmmm it makes sense i guess cause when i put in the ground fusion grounding kit it made me ground from the chassis to this brown metal peice next to my alternator and from there to a point on the engine block and then back down to my tranny.... So i guess thats how its done....
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    1337Rolla oh my

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    as a check you can download the wiring diagrams in the tech docs section too.
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    o ya ur right thanks i forgot about that section
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    yep the grounding is done through the engine block
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    Do grounding kits really help that much, and where do you mount the kit at? Sorry if this sounds stupid.


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    to the engines ground system and usually near the sparkplugs
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    do you just find a place near the spark plugs on the firewall, cause I Was thinking about a grounding kit, but I have no Idea how to hook one up, I will start another thread so I'm not jacking his.


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    I could take pictures of what I did to ground my car :D time to use yet again my new camera :D
    SaberJ2X, Oct 23, 2006
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