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Grounding Problem - Car still wont Start
OK, I am a bit confused. My car would not start. I had a neighbor
look at it who was a mechanic when he was a teenager some 50 or 60 years ago. He said that my battery is not properly grounded, and said I need to ground the battery and the car will start without any more problems. I went to Home Depot and bought a ten foot ground rod and drove it in the yard next to my driveway and hooked a 49 gauge red wire from the rod to the red wire on my car battery. The car still did not start so I changed that wire to the black battery wire. The car still would not start so I went back to Home Depot and bought some black wire and connected that in place of the red wire, so the colors matched. That still did not solve the problem. I decided to connect both the red and the black wires from the battery to the ground rod. As soon as I did, the wires started smoking and the red one melted in half, leaving a bad burn mark on my fender. I did all of this and had the battery properly grounded and it still will not start. I really dont know what to do next. I was a bit worried anyow because even if the car did start, I would not be able to move it because it was connected to the ground rod, unless I got some really long wires. What do I do next? By the way, I am not sure if that wire was 49 gauge or not, but it cost 49 cents a foot, so I assume it was. Willy |
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