C5 Corvette
Registered User
I do not understand Ford engineers and their decisions in laying out and designing components for there engines sometimes. MY SC had a bad battery ground cable so I was thinking changing the negative battery cable "should" be a snap. To my dismay and 30 minutes later I was still trying to find the negative cable ground either on the subframe or the engine block, I had eventually found the ground to the bad negative cable. But problem was it was connected to the engine just below the header behind the oil filter body, plus the subframe was in the way and there was no way to get at it! The cable was severely eroded "know wonder the car did'nt start" and I was racking my brain trying to configure out how I'm going to reach that cable without pulling the oil filter body off the engine "that job did not look easy either". Even "if" I could reach and remove the battery cable, how could I snake the new one in? I basically got feld up, rolled up and tucked away the old cable, then installed the new ground cable on one of the 3 driver side strut tower studs. Thinking it could be a poor ground I took the chance anyway and cranked the engine, lo' and behold the engine started and ran perfectly! A good ground is a good ground I guess. For the life of me I don't understand why the Ford engineers would put the negative battery cable so out of reach and "nearly out of sight" preventing a simple maintenance repair. I guess that the Ford engineers in all their wisdom thought the negative battery cable should last forever and there should be no need to make it simple to change it.
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