Re: Location of Battery ground connection?

Posted by HH56 On 2023/8/4 20:01:14

You would think that would be the case and Packard did have a large ground strap between the frame and a transmission case bolt thru 42 conventional body models. That was probably because the battery ground strap connected to the frame in those models. For whatever reason, after the Clipper battery moved to the engine compt and grounded directly to the engine Packard did not use a ground strap on those or any postwar models until the 55s when they again added a small approx 10ga braided ground strap between the engine and firewall.

In the prewar Clippers and 46-54 models they relied mostly on linkage and various tubing runs to make a connection between the engine and frame or sheetmetal. About the only solid ground connection to the body in those years was the 16ga ground wire between the generator case and the L fender headlight terminal mounting screw which went on to the regulator body.