[DeTomaso] Techno question: the negative ground battery cable

[Charles Engles]

Dear Forum,

 

                I am an electrical ignoramus.  I am working on a friend's
Pantera and I noticed that his battery negative cable does not connect to
the ground stud near the back of the battery.  A previous owner cut a hole
and routed an new cable all the way back under the car to ground it the
bottom of the ZF.  

 

                The car has not been functional for about twenty five years
and my friend has mostly resurrected it.  He tells me that with about five
hundred miles of driving his dash board instruments and lights seem to work
fine.

 

                 Is it important to run a short cable to the ground stud in
addition to the apparently functional new ground cable directly to the ZF?

 

                                 Warmest regards, Chuck Engles

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   Dear Forum,


                   I am an electrical ignoramus.  I am working on a
   friend's Pantera and I noticed that his battery negative cable does not
   connect to the ground stud near the back of the battery.  A previous
   owner cut a hole and routed an new cable all the way back under the car
   to ground it the bottom of the ZF.


                   The car has not been functional for about twenty five
   years and my friend has mostly resurrected it.  He tells me that with
   about five hundred miles of driving his dash board instruments and
   lights seem to work fine.


                    Is it important to run a short cable to the ground
   stud in addition to the apparently functional new ground cable directly
   to the ZF?


                                    Warmest regards, Chuck Engles