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Dan
10-02-2003, 01:23 PM
Been reading Skip's book on wiring, GREAT book! Everyone always advises grounding everything to bare metal, is rust a concern in these areas? In the interior its no big deal but I am thinking of out in the engine compartment? I'd like to take my ground connections down to bare metal but am concerned about the connection getting rusty - does that even effect the ground?
After reading the book I may try to make my own fuse panel and wire my car (probably do the '49 first) Am thinking about mounting the panel in the trunk - stupid idea? Couldn't be any more inconvenient than laying on your back to get at it up under the dash?
Petejoe
10-02-2003, 01:33 PM
After and before you make your connection. You can apply Dielectric Grease to it. That will give you some protection from the elements and dissimilar materials. I have made my own and bought the kits. My suggestion is to buy the kit. In the long run It's much easier and not that much more
expensive.The problems with mounting it to the trunk is.. all your wires...
(instead of just the turn signals,rear lights and gas gauge wires) will have to be run from the back to the dash and engine compartment.Do-able but a pain. here's a website with test results dielectric tests (http://k0swi.microlnk.com/REVIEW/BATTERY/BOAT/DIELECTRIC%20GREASE.htm)
Fat Hack
10-02-2003, 01:35 PM
Use a compound called No-Oxide on your connections and it will protect them from rust and corrosion. The stuff works GREAT...it cut through the crap in the headlight sockets on my last Oldsmobile and got them working right again!
InPrimer
10-02-2003, 06:48 PM
Dan , a good friend of mine just rewired his 38 Chev, what he did was put a hinge on the panel, and when you "need" to find or fix a fuze it swings down ez to see and then goes up under the dash again, wish I've tought of it when I did mine
Digger_Dave
10-02-2003, 11:01 PM
Or consider mounting the fuse panel behind the kick panel (on a hinge) between the door post and the floor boards.

As far as grounding; run a ground wire to each electrical component, collecting them all together and connect to the ground ("-"?) post of the battery. This way there are very few places where corossion can occur.
old beet
10-02-2003, 11:37 PM
E Z....it really is......OLDBEET