[Roadsters] Brake lights and Right directional

[Paul Bauman]

I'm with Gordon on this one. Ground the daylights out of the car. I have 
ground straps going from the battery to the engine block, and from the 
battery to the starter. I have had accelerator cables spot welded 
internally by having the starter use it for a return to ground. 
Roadsters can't be too cool, too fast or too grounded.

Paul Bauman
67 1600
Westminster, CA



On 06/28/2014 04:08 PM, Gordon Glasgow wrote:
> I did the same thing years ago - failed to hook up the big ground to the
> frame. It wound up frying the voltage regulator (twice) before I figured it
> out. It also melted the housing on the throttle cable because it tried to
> ground through that, too.
>
> Gordon Glasgow
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Datsun-roadsters [mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Gene at Scotia Lockup
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 7:52 AM
> To: datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Roadsters] Brake lights and Right directional
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions,
>
> I think I needed to be more specific so here goes:
>
> My car is an early 1969 2000 (SRL311-07183), with a single row of fuses.
>
> All the lights were working properly before I removed the engine and
> transmission.
>
> After I reinstalled the motor and trans I didn't tighten the ground from the
> frame to the starter and found that caused the hard starting problem, it was
> acting as if the battery was almost dead. It acts as if something shorted
> out but there are no blown fuses and if the ground was bad it couldn't have
> shorted. I do need to add the reverse lights are not working as well so I
> will be testing that switch as well.
>
> I hope this additional info helps.
>
> Thanks again
>
>   
>
> Gene