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Subject:Re: Ground Stars
From:Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Date:Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:20:01 -0700

I'm not interested in those ground stars so much since I don't want
push-on spade ground connections at all.
I want screw and eye terminal ground connections.
Obviously one can not do more than about 3 wires on one screw very
elegantly ..( put a star type lock washer between eye terminal and body
of the van ) .
I'd probably make a bus bar ground thing ....a well grounded bar with
holes drilled into it, ground wires to that, if I had to have 'that
many' ground wires in one place.
   I would at least move the headlight ground wires there to closer to
the headlights. That helps anyway.

if I had too many wires on the back of the early style fuse box, which I
think you are talking about,
I'd make another remotely mounted fuse box of  a generic type for 'all
that stuff' you must have added onto your stock fuse box.  And with more
modern spade type  fuses too of course.  The ceramic thing with metal
strip type fuses are weak and archaic.

On 7/2/2012 2:34 PM, JRodgers wrote:
> I need to add another ground star. A while back I had some arc-n-spark
> under the dash and after having a look, saw the ground stars are wired
> up like a Christmas tree. Almost every point had multiple ground wires
> attached. That has got to change. So - anyone have a spare laying
> around? Or in these more modern times, is there a better way to deal
> with this grounding problem - too many ground wires for the star.
>
> Also - There are way to many power connections on the bus bar on the
> fuse block. Got to deal with that too. Recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>