Where to ground off the amp?

[THXdts 10+ year member]

I have an extended cab truck. Where can I ground the amp to? I was thinking underneath a plastic thing for one of my jump seats. Not sure.

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[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

Use a seat bolt. Just make sure you have GOOD metal to metal contact. Get a wire brush or something and get the pain off in that one small area. You don't need to do any more than what the terminal needs for it to contact, so you shouldn't have to scrape away so much that it would be noticed.

 

[THXdts 10+ year member]

Use a seat bolt. Just make sure you have GOOD metal to metal contact. Get a wire brush or something and get the pain off in that one small area. You don't need to do any more than what the terminal needs for it to contact, so you shouldn't have to scrape away so much that it would be noticed.

So just unscrew the bolt, put the screw through the fitting, then screw the bolt back in? With the fitting in between the screw and the seat?

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

What I would do is solder a ring terminal to my ground wire from my amp. Select a bolt that goes to the body of the car. IE, seat belt bolt, seat bolt. Pull back the carpet enough to get to metal. Clean off a spot. Put the ring terminal against the freshly cleaned spot, then put all back together making sure that the ring terminal is on the bolt when you put it in.

I hope that made sense.

 

[jeepintn 10+ year member]

seal bolts ftw! go to the frame often, make for great grounds. also, i recommend putting a small amount of vasoline on the area you scrape to help prevent rusting.

 

[THXdts 10+ year member]

I read somewhere to not use seat belt bolts?

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

As long as it makes good continuity with the frame and negative terminal on the battery, why not?

 

[oxsign 5,000+ posts]

Unbolt one of the jump seat bolts and ground it there. This way it's hidden and out of the way.