Need help locating Bed Grounding Strap
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Need help locating Bed Grounding Strap
I need help locating the Grounding Strip for the bed of my Ford Super Duty Crew Cab 2007 TD. I have LED lights along with my third brake light for the topper grounded to the bed of the truck. They have worked fine for a year until yesterday coming home from Dallas, TX. along Route 412 in Oklahoma outside of Boise City. Road is very rough in spots. I can only assume that the grounding strap broke or came totally off. The lights are all LED and are very dim when turned on. Today I went out and grounded the bed to the frame and all was fixed. However, I would still like to locate the factory grounding strap for the bed and fix it permanently. I have located the front cab strap, but still can't find the rear one. Thanks for any help!
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I would look right there around the body mounts, probably front of the bed on the pass side. This is the closest to the battery in a gas engine so it's where I would expect the stock wire to be. The thin flat braid is fairly small, you might as well upgrade the ground to 4ga while your playing with it.
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Thank you for the response. I have checked near the body mounts and still don't see anything. I'm starting to wonder if the truck does not have a grounding strap. I don't see any evidence that one was anywhere. If it had broke, I would think the other half would still be there. In the past I had a 99 Ford SD extra cab that had a grounding strap for the bed, located near the gas filler. Both trucks are/where diesels with dual batteries. Could there be some other way the bed is grounded? Like I said, all the lights worked excellent, until I traveled down the rough road for about 80 miles. Do you think it is the bed mounting bolts that perform this grounding?
