In case there's any doubters re: grounding.

[68gmsee]

I want to thank all of you who have been telling us, for quite some time, that we need to make sure we have good grounding on these old trucks. I thought mine was ok but found out I was wrong.

I did a search to find out what the rest of you all are doing and decided to do the same. Seems that on these old trucks the rust, dirt and grime builds up on the bolts to the cab, frame and bed and we loose good contact.

Here's my experience.

A couple of weeks ago I decided to reposition the bed. It was slightly off center. That's when my rear lights decided to do some weird stuff.

I had no rear lights and no brake lights with the light switch on. If I turned light switch off, my brakes lights worked. Also license plate light decided not to work either. My rear blinkers stopped working.

All this time I thought I had a good grounding on the truck. I did a search to find out what the rest of you all are doing and decided to do the same.

Action plan: Went to the local auto parts and bought 3 braided cables and one 19 inch black ground cable. Box of assorted star washers.

Ground cable from block to the frame.
Ground cable to the radiator support.
Ground cable from cab to frame.
Ground cable from bed to frame.
Made sure I had good clean connections and put star washers on all the ends.

All my lights are working and even look brighter. And the bonus, my alternator guage started to work. I had thought I had a bad guage...