Not fuel or pmd but no start now

[JMJNet]

I never said bad grounds don't happen. I simply said that pulling all the grounds and cleaning them rarely fixes the issue. Its a hail mary when you are out of options. If you learn to TEST grounds properly you can save a lot of time. Its not as hard as you make it out to be.

It is not hard to test but people are very oblivious or they don't want to do it.
At least when we tell them to at least taking off and reattaching forces them to look at it, plus the fact that we don't have access to their truck.
This truck is one of those that has ground issue if the ground is loose.
Stating the fact that this is old truck no matter how you look at it.
People were fixing something and forgot to attach the ground back on.
Don't ask how I know.

 

[Rockabillyrat]

Another issue with telling people to remove all the grounds and clean them is you stand a chance of damaging the wire and creating an issue you didn't have before. I've lost track of the amount of times I've had to repair a ground wire on a engine install because the bolt or stud was seized to the eyelet of the ground wire. I get beat up on this forum for being too much of a mechanic on my responses to some of these threads. But at then end of the day I'm giving my personal experiences to save people from making mistakes. A meter is a must have tool of your going to work on your own truck. A simple voltage drop test is a simple and easy test to learn to save you time and money.

 

[JMJNet]

Rocky, I agree with you.

A lot of people show up here don't have a clue or tools.
It is more difficult to teach people to do that. LOL!!!

Although, there is Youtube but you know, a lot of people don't even know how to use that.
Plus, there is amazon and a whole lot of sites where people can buy tools for cheap.

I know the risk of messing up cables, either way, there is no easy way since not all people have access to honest mechanics or tools themselves.

By the way, I was one of those people and when I bought the burb, I know nothing.
I had to learn to wrench, use tools, etc.
I burnt a few wires, broke a few hoses, etc.
Forgot to connect a few wires.
One hour to the professional, ended up to be a week job.
School of hard knocks.

By the way, if you want to start a collection of how to use the multimeter to check ground, feel free to do so.

 

[Rockabillyrat]

Everyone has to start somewhere!

I could probably put together a meter how to thread with stuff I run into at work. I will try to keep that in mind when I get into some diagnostic repairs.