Mystery Broken wire? (Page 1/1)
SamanthaM AUG 24, 07:23 PM
While cleaning the engine compartment on my 86 V6 4-speed i came across a wire that was hanging on by 1 piece? It is a heavy black coated wire with a crimped bolt loop connector on the end. It is located on the drivers side under and to the left from the slave cylinder. I used a 10mm deep socket and loosened the bolt, removed the barely loop, cut, replaced and wrapped the very visible 2 inches of wire....and rebolted it to where it was....

The car was running fine before this. Only issue I am dealing with is a jumpy tach (but I ordered a replacement tach filter to fix it, just waiting for it to arrive). The car is still running fine, I just have no idea what that wire went to? It disappears into the abiss????

Any ideas?
fierofool AUG 24, 07:31 PM
It is a ground wire. One end is attached to a threaded stud on the frame rail. The other end attaches to a transmission to engine bolt.
SamanthaM AUG 24, 07:43 PM

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Originally posted by fierofool:

It is a ground wire. One end is attached to a threaded stud on the frame rail. The other end attaches to a transmission to engine bolt.



Ok, cool...thank you! I know, sounded like a stupid question, but it had me a bit concerned....
vette7584 AUG 24, 09:20 PM
no such thing as a stupid questions on here, best place to get advice!
SamanthaM AUG 25, 12:01 PM
I just wanted to add....After reading some great articles here about v6's and grounding straps, I searched and found the one coming from the trunk lid to the back of the engine and it too was broken.

I went to auto zone and got the only one they had and got to work replacing the broken one. Very easy to do since there was a detailed article on it that included bolt sizes

I inspected the broken one and cut it to 8 inches and put new ends on it and then attached it from the battery box bolt to the EGR Solinoid Bracket as shown in the article. Before all of this, my gauges were a bit jumpy, my windows SUPER slow, and my door chime sounded like a dying frog! My volts were registering around 14. Now my volts are registering 15 almost 16 and my lights are nice and bright, the jumpy gauges are gone and the phantom wiper issue that happened upon left turns....GONE! My door chime is even a bit better....still sounds like a dam frog though

Thank you everyone here for having such great articles on just about everything!

[This message has been edited by SamanthaM (edited 08-25-2019).]