olspeed
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Location: In the shadow of Denali, I still don't give a damn how they do it outside
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 Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: Relocating Karmann Ghia Battery under Back Seat |
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| runamoc wrote: |
| xzener wrote: |
| I sanded down to bare metal on the body mount, and used a wire brush to clean the treads... It's a solid ground front to rear. |
Isn't there a rubber gasket between the frame and body there? The Germans didn't connect the neg. of a battery to the body first. It was either a stud on the frame or straight to the engine like Karmann did. That being said, yours works, it's your car and it looks good.  |
The bolt that goes through there is threaded into the pan which is welded to the frame so it would ground both
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