I have a question for any of you diehards out there who have retained the generator and voltage regulator for thier old Ford truck motor. Where can you connect the wire from the ground terminal on the Ford generator? I have heard it is just a ground and you can ground it anywhere bit is this true?The shop manual diagram kind of contradicts this. It shows this wire going to the battery terminal on the regulator and acouple of grounds running off that wire. Does it need to be connected to the regulator bsttery terminal or just grounded? If it just needs to be grounded where can I ground it? Can it be on the motor, frame, body sheetmetal or any of these? I know I'm showing my ignorance on electrics but I'm never too old to learn.
What year of truck are we dealing with? I don't know if it makes a difference, but it might.
On my '56, the ground wire comes off the generator and attaches to one of the mounting screws for the voltage regulator, grounding to the inner fender. Thus, you can ground it to the body sheet metal, the frame, or even directly to the battery negative terminal.
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If this is a Bonus Built truck, it's the same as Liftech described. The screw that holds the reg to the firewall is used as a ground. It is important that the reg be solidly grounded. But personally I'd run additional grounds from there to the block and to the ground terminal on the battery.
It's a 53 flathead V8 I'm converting to 12 volt. So it should hook up like yours LiftTech.I'll take your advice Ross. Seems like I've heard that before; yhat you can't have too many grounds. Thank you both.
