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Replacing a body ground strap on a classic car
Feb 4, 2025
Using a 1974 Plymouth Valiant (Dodge Dart / Plymouth Duster) with a slant six to show how to change out a ground strap. This is for novices, not experienced mechanics! #mopar #carrepair #classiccars #classiccarrepair #fixityourself #slantsix #dodge #plymouth #valiant #dart #dodgedart
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hi this is Dave from motels and I'm here
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with a little video on replacing your
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engine to body ground strap a handy
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little Gizmo uh if there's a short
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circuit it melts in a Flash and then you
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get to put in a new one ask how I know
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so I'm going to first start by putting
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on my safety
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glasses and then there are two bolts
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here that are different sizes in
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Chrysler's Infinite Wisdom up here on
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top you see a 38 in
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Bolt take that off and
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just this comes it should come right off
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with almost no effort at
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all and then the next one is down here
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and this is a little hard to see because
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you've got on this particular car you've
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got this little resistor so what you can
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do to make this easier to reach is you
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can take off the air cleaner
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[Music]
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and someplace else where it's not
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touching the battery then you can move
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this out of the
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way discover that you need to replace
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that
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grommet and now we switch
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over to a
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916 you could ask why they didn't use a/
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inch to make it even
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or another 3/8
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inch all right so it's nice and
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loose and the wire connector here also
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holds on this little wiring and resistor
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assembly so try not to disturb that
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because it is a pain to get it to line
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right back up again put it new cable and
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keep in mind that these two holes at the
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end of the
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cable are should be a different size
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with one bigger than the other it
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appears that this particular one has
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exactly the same size on both
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ends hoping that any of that was visible
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but you basically just have to line
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up the mount for this little electrical
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thing and snug it up not too
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tight which is one reason I'm using this
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teeny weeny little
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one so I don't overtighten
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it all
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right we just have this one come up
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right over
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there it always helps to put the screws
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where you can find them I might need to
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end up using a washer for this because
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the company that made it is not supposed
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to make this opening quite so large yet
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I'm going to have to end up adding a
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washer but for the
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moment let's just snug it on with our 38
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in just for illustration
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so that's basically
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it I've got one more step here because
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people who made this particular cable
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did not make the holes the size that
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they were supposed to but other than
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that it should work just fine so now
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I've actually had a chance to do it
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properly and you can see there it is
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with the washer it looks perfectly
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natural making better electrical contact
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you should do what I'm going to do which
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is actually bring this back get one
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that's properly fitted for the car and
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use that as for the rest when you put
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back the air cleaner here uh make sure
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that all the hoses that go into it are
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correctly put in I've got a bit of an
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oil leak coming out of here and that's
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because the grommet seems to have shrunk
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a bit since it was put in this is very
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loose play so I'm going to have to
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replace that as well
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