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While inspecting my railroad ties wall that is slowly rotting away and trying to make decision on how to best handle it money wise, I come across this
Now I knew what it was instantly, looked under both trucks and Big Blues was gone. We have a lot of brine put on the roads here and I know it's going to be the cause. Question is, do I use Marine grade cable to replace it? (It was replaced last year) or get another from Ford and grease the snoot out of it . How bout it Jack, got any comments on this. It's right up your alley.
It' a bonding cable, so not noted in the electrical diagrams. Even labeled as a Bonding Cable in the parts book. But it carries a current, more then you would expect due to the inadequacies of our setup. If you did my under the radar cable, you're covered.
And you wrote exactly what I have in the narrative, as a braided cable it holds the brine so it corrodes in the rust belt, and burns up when corroded enough during the starting event.
It's a 12ga cable and my recommendation for the vid is what you also wrote, replaced with a marine grade 12ga that won't corrode.
No, but I remember our conversation in the driveway very well. I though it was important to be brought up. I wanted it to be verified by a better expert than myself that's all.
Most boating and some auto stores carry marine cable, aka tin coated, so it doesn't corrode like pure copper. West Marine around us (me and Bill) have it and will cut a length. It's all I use for automotive. The stock cable is 8", but 6" works fine. One end terminal 1/4" and the other I believe 3/8".
Here is one of my experimental pieces.
It's documented as a bonding cable, but it has a real interesting life.
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