[DML] Re: Teeny Tiny Ground wires

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't believe that having panels "hot" is a huge issue, about the 
only opportunity for a problem there would be a short in the side 
marker light wiring. 

Since I just took a car completely apart, I had a chance to see the 
whole path:

The rear quarter panels are gounded via black wires from the rear 
corners to the rear frame crossmember behind the bumper. 
For the front, there is a black wire that is actually routed under 
the windshield glass at the bottom of the passenger side. 
This "lands" on the first screw on top that holds the right front 
fender on. There is one of those "tiny" wires that connects the 
fender to the lower end of the passenger side winshield moulding. 
There is another of those at each upper corner of the windshield 
moulding, and finally one that goes from the bottom of the driver 
side windshield moulding to the left front fender. There is no 
specific connection to the roof panel, it seems to be via contact 
with the upper windshield trim. The doors are gounded through the 
wiring harness. The hood is connected to one of the front fenders (I 
forget which at the moment).

Dave Swingle

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxx> 
wrote:
> You are correct about the panels being grounded primaraly for radio
> purposes. There is another underlying reason that you should 
maintain
> the bonding and grounding of the S/S panels. In the event you have a
> hot wire touch a panel it would electrify the panel and not blow any
> fuses. By maintaining the bonding and grounding a shorted wire to a
> panel would overload the circuit and blow a fuse. Now you would know
> there was a problem and fix it. This is a little different from most
> cars, this is never an issue on cars with panels directly mounted 
on a




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