ground for the battery in the rear?

[just_like_u 10+ year member]

where can i put the ground for my battery in the back? dont have enough 0ga. to run to the battery up front. would the frame of the truck work good for my battery in the back. what would be my posibilities?

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[BlactimusCrime 10+ year member]

The frame works, I would just ground to sheet metal, either way you go make sure you sand/grind to good clean metal before you make your connection.

 

[infamous_e46 5,000+ posts]

if you buy my batts ill tell you

 

[just_like_u 10+ year member]

just bought some from a local bussiness

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

The frame works, I would just ground to sheet metal, either way you go make sure you sand/grind to good clean metal before you make your connection.

Why in the world would you use sheetmetal instead of the frame?

 

[subzero 5,000+ posts]

I would find a bolt that fastens to the frame. Crawl under the truck and look for a hole in the frame. there usually is a few that are for accesories. Then you can mark out where it lands in the truck and dril trough. use a gromet and run the line down and fasten with locking bolts. Easy to hide that shit uder the carpet in a truck.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Cool thing about a ground is that you don't need a grommet. Drill through the floor pan like you mentioned but for a bolt, not the wire itself. Use a ring terminal inside the truck to connect to the bolt. Then get under the truck and use another ring terminal to connect to the bolt on the other side of the panel and a third ring terminal and a second bolt to the frame. The benefit of this is that it improves the conductive path for everything grounded in the rear to the sheet metal and it will lay flat under the carpet or wherever you do it.

 

[sexy 10+ year member]

by the back do you mean the bed. anyways make sure you have a good frame ground in the front from the batt then ground to the frame in the back.

 

[infamous_e46 5,000+ posts]

I would find a bolt that fastens to the frame. Crawl under the truck and look for a hole in the frame. there usually is a few that are for accesories. Then you can mark out where it lands in the truck and dril trough. use a gromet and run the line down and fasten with locking bolts. Easy to hide that shit uder the carpet in a truck.

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[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

use your frame...the body of a lot of trucks is isolated by rubber bushings to help have a smoother ride...also run a wire from your front battery - to the frame to increase ground...

 

[just_like_u 10+ year member]

so let me get this rite. i can just take my power wire that runs from the front batt + to the amp right now and disconnect the amp and put old powere wire on new batt + in the back. then ground my rear batt straight to the frame and run my new power wire for the amp from the back batt. dose this sound good or am i gona burn something up

 

[just_like_u 10+ year member]

will ^^^^ work?

 

[nineball 10+ year member]

so let me get this rite. i can just take my power wire that runs from the front batt + to the amp right now and disconnect the amp and put old powere wire on new batt + in the back. then ground my rear batt straight to the frame and run my new power wire for the amp from the back batt. dose this sound good or am i gona burn something up

that will work, but be sure to fuse the line within 18" of each battery, the closer the better. i second what has been said that you should run a new ground for the front battery to the frame just to be on the safe side.

 

[just_like_u 10+ year member]

i have done the big three with 0ga, soildered ring terminals, prepped and sanded all conections that worked good just want to be even safer so bought two matching batts and wanted to install before it gets to cold