Ground modification on an 89, cruiser tip #6

[dkmcgowan]

So I went to do the cruiser tip #6, the ground modification.  I'm pretty positive it was factory harness, it was the factory old style tape that crumbled in my hands, showing that it was really old.  It seemed very factory.

 

Then I discovered it looks like the modification was already done??

 

I have 0.1 OHM from battery to B terminal on TPS, doesn't move at all when I wiggle.

 

Was this ever done to fix things at the dealership, maybe someone took it in in the 90's and they did it with the factory tape stuff?

 

I figured if someone at home did it, it would be regular electrical tape.

 

[dkmcgowan]

I was thinking before I wrap it all up I could heat it up and push some solder into it to make the bond stronger...

 

I read the cruiser tip again and I can't tell if the single wire connector between the two 3 pairs was only on the 87 and 88 and this is how the 89 was from factory, but sometimes that crimp connector is not on good and it still could be improved from being soldered?

[cruiser54]

That's factory. 

 

Dealership/factory never addrssed this issue. 

[dkmcgowan]

That's factory. 

 

Dealership/factory never addrssed this issue. 

 

if this is factory I thought this was the fix for tip #6, to remove the single wire and connect the two sets of wires together, which appears to have already been done?

 

Should I just heat this up, push in some solder, and wrap it all back up?

[cruiser54]

 

That's factory. 

 

Dealership/factory never addrssed this issue. 

 

if this is factory I thought this was the fix for tip #6, to remove the single wire and connect the two sets of wires together, which appears to have already been done?

 

Should I just heat this up, push in some solder, and wrap it all back up?

 

I would solder it. Yes. I have found some different configurations since I did the write-up on my wife's 88 Cherokee. 

[dkmcgowan]

So the connection was already soldered and fit pretty perfect with good connections.  My dumb @$$ cut the connection, realized it was already soldered, now none of the wires will reach, and I will probably have to solder and extend wires, and make the connection worse.  In hindsight I wish I had not attempted or done this one since my OHM readings were already good

[dkmcgowan]

I ended up having to extend two wires.  I had some green wires that were close to the same size.  They might have been a little smaller or maybe just not as good, which concerned me, but it was all I had.

 

So I extended two wires and then twisted them all together and soldered them.

 

I ended up with 0.2 OHM, so I made it worse.

 

I should have just left it alone.

 

I spent all day on this simple stupid project, which wasn't even a problem to start with...

 

 

 

 

[dkmcgowan]

I guess 0.2 ohms is still pretty good.  No fluctuation when wiggling...

[dkmcgowan]

I decided to just check my meter and just set it to 200 on ohms and touched the terminals directly together, and it read 0.2...  I could move them and got it to say 0.1, so I will assume I pretty much have perfect ground at 0 ohms and that was my meter showing me 0.1 and 0.2 at different times...

 

So all is good...

 

Didn't solve my idle and starting problems, but one less thing to do from the cruiser tips section...

 

For future reference it would have been easier, like I said I was going to do, to just heat up the connector that was there and push in some solder into it to strengthen the connection instead of cutting the wires and then realizing they would be too short to tape up and push back into the harness.

 

ohh well, live and learn