i noticed my ground plate was rusty and i have been having hard starts so i pulled it off to clean it, i cleaned it and while i was tightening it back on the bolt snapped.. where can i relocate my ground wire that will be the best???

 

i can sell you a ground wire. the stock one that is. or you cal look on ebay. they are around $20

 

i have ground wire, i want to relocate the ground to a diffrent spot than where it is stock because the bolt snapped in the hole and my car is stuck cant start it.. i need to relocate it perminatly

 

Any clean secure spot on the transmission or engine should work fine. Or you can mount it in the same area as the wire from the negative terminal of the battery.

 

its the wire that comes off the negitive battery terminal and runs too the bracket plate on the motor

 

is the wire corroded all to h*** or did you buy a new one? Just tapp a new hole. aand while your grounding stuff... clean everything, use terminal protactant, and dont under/over torque anything.. snapping bolts isnt fun i did that once.. wasa PITA

 

I grounded it on the transmission bellhousing just where the drain plug is. Just make sure you clean it up good before grounding it.

 

grounding you maxi is mean. What did it do you you? =P

 

yeah its cold here in CT and while i was tightening it down it was like hard then easy then hard then easy and then snap! and im like sweeeeet now what!! im not tapping it cause i dont have the tools or time, im going to school and working night shift and have no car until i can find a new ground spot for the negitive wire

 

snapped the bolt that holds that grounding bracket onto the motor under the stock intake thingy.... = me haha

 

Like Nopike said, try grounding it to one of those spots on the tranny.

 

awesome pic! thank you nhaven

 

i noticed the holes arent threaded.. do i have to make threads by threading a bolt threw and tightening it slowly? or helicoil? how do i go about making that a threaded spot for my ground?? thanks in advanced

 

You would use a tap, you can't just stick a bolt in there and have it make threads.

There are quite a few places you can run a ground cable to, one of which is one of the bolts that hold the stock ground location to the block. That, or a bellhousing bolt, pretty much any bolt on the block or the heads.

 

Those spots on my tranny are threaded. There's a lot of dirt in those holes. Get something like this

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...icial%26sa%3DG

and move it around in one of the holes. I could feel the screw hooking to the threads in the hole.

Mine is a 95 with manual tranny if that matters.

 

mine is also a 95 manual.. the holes are really dirty but dont feel or look threaded

 

I broke the same bolt last summer. I believe there's a hole just above it where
a tab from the grounding plate extends part way into the hole. (Kind of a positioning
tab) I found that hole was tapped and just put a new bolt into that hole.
I think I had to splice on a couple inches of wire and a new lug to reach the upper
hole ,which was maybe 2 inches above the hole with the broken bolt.

 

yes! i noticed that today, i dont know what kinda bolt tho, i got a coarse thread not fine thread.. i got it to go in a few turns by hand but i dont wanna crank it on if its not right. i got the 5/16ths 1 inch long coarse thread.. i ended up getting new cable tonight cause i saw my stock is too short by a few inches, PITA!!

 

Why would you get a standard bolt for a Japanese car? Everything is in metric.

Judging by the photo the threads are probably 8x1.25.

5/16 is about 8mm, so that's probably what it is (8x1.25). Surely you can find some spare bolts somewhere, or just grab some from a hardware store/auto parts store.

 

im an idiot could be 1 reason... other reason is the store i went too didnt have any metric but ill hit up advance tomorrow..