VEP Battery Ground Location
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VEP Battery Ground Location
Still working on GPW 4661 (going on 15 years!). At least I'm putting it back together.
Need some help on the location of where the Negative Battery Cable was attached to the body.
This is one location on the front of the battery tray.
This is the right radiator grounding stud.
Can anyone help me
Tim
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Need some help on the location of where the Negative Battery Cable was attached to the body.
This is one location on the front of the battery tray.
This is the right radiator grounding stud.
Can anyone help me
Tim
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Re: VEP Battery Ground Location
Hopefully someone with a VEP on a Willys frame can help me. My understanding is Ford on their later frames used the front cross member as a grounding point. And that Willys used the hole in the front of the battery tray. Did Ford use the Willy's location or the later cross member site?
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Re: VEP Battery Ground Location
I'm also in the same boat, I have one of the "long" long olive drab line reproductions correct for VEP GPW so I assume it installs to the front cross member.
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Re: VEP Battery Ground Location
You battery ground cable should mount to the front cross member
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Re: VEP Battery Ground Location
Mike, can you expand on this please? Where on the front cross member should it mount for a Willys frame?Michael O. wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2017 9:01 amYou battery ground cable should mount to the front cross member
I only ask, as the photo Tim has shown above is showing one of the studs for the radiator to cross member bond straps, and I wouldnt have thought it shared a mounting point?
Tim, on a side note- if you do mount it to the batter tray,I suggest before going much further you tin/solder the metal around the mounting point as it would have originally (if mounted on the battery tray) have been. This will help no end on your grounding, especially for 6volt.
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Re: VEP Battery Ground Location
Thanks Ian.
I think I have a lot of 'tinning' to do before I start mounting the grounding straps. I have been reading up on it in past posts on the G.
Fire season is winding down here in California. Does that mean it is about to start down there?
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I think I have a lot of 'tinning' to do before I start mounting the grounding straps. I have been reading up on it in past posts on the G.
Fire season is winding down here in California. Does that mean it is about to start down there?
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Re: VEP Battery Ground Location
So Michael O, Are you saying the ground cable should be doubled up with the right radiator ground strap? I don't see any other studs on the cross member
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I've got two studs on my cross member. I asked about this a few months ago. I'll go see what the answer was.
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Re: VEP Battery Ground Location
My apologies....when I first read this thread on my cell phone screen I though you had GPW 14661. I didn't see the photos either. Now I realize that you have GPW 4661 on a Midland frame... ...my mistake!
I haven't gone through the disassembly of GPW 2647 yet and I can't get underneath it now to check.....but if it's like the Slat MB's shouldn't the ground cable mount to the inside frame rail underneath the battery tray?
I haven't gone through the disassembly of GPW 2647 yet and I can't get underneath it now to check.....but if it's like the Slat MB's shouldn't the ground cable mount to the inside frame rail underneath the battery tray?
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Re: VEP Battery Ground Location
I do have a clinch type nut in that position that I didn't know what it was for. Very rusty and obviously not used in years so a good possibility or it may mean that Ford chose somewhere else to mount the cable and that nut was left to rust with no use.
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Re: VEP Battery Ground Location
Michael:
I'll check my inner from under the battery tray for the nut.
Seems like with so many VEP GPWs out there that someone would have a negative cable still in place
Thanks for all the responses.
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I'll check my inner from under the battery tray for the nut.
Seems like with so many VEP GPWs out there that someone would have a negative cable still in place
Thanks for all the responses.
Tim
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Re: VEP Battery Ground Location
Michael O:
I looked at the inner frame rail on my frame. Found three hole total but no captured nut. Is this what you were talking about. As far as comparing where Ford attached their negative battery cable to the Midland frame, do you feel they followed Willy's or did their own (Ford) thing?
3mbobby: Is this where your clinch type nut was located??
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I looked at the inner frame rail on my frame. Found three hole total but no captured nut. Is this what you were talking about. As far as comparing where Ford attached their negative battery cable to the Midland frame, do you feel they followed Willy's or did their own (Ford) thing?
3mbobby: Is this where your clinch type nut was located??
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Re: VEP Battery Ground Location
Here it is, I've been looking at other photos of Midland frame Batt trays and I've a feeling my frame may be an early frame. The 2 part tray frame has the same threaded insert as my one piece tray frame. Others don't have this it would appear.
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