Max;
The answer is no. The AFM housing is not electrically common to the
ground circuit, hence the need to ground it. I believe this provides a
discharge path for accumulated static charges produced by the moving air.
Ken Lewis
86 Crewcab

On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:07:25 -0800 Max/Joyce Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
writes:
>Installed my tantallum cap. on my AFM and was wondering; I believe it
>was Karl that said to ground the AFM housing to the block or
>alternator bracket but I found no easy way to attach a ground to the
>metal part of the AFM.  Is running wire from the #4 pin(ground ) to
>the block or alt. bracket acceptable?
>
>Many thanks
>
>Dimwitted moose and Flying Squirrel

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