Positive battery cable

1. iSlayeR Established Member Joined: Aug 2009 King's lynn Posts: 2073 Turbocharged vtr

   #1 11th January 2011, 19:28

   Need help in locating where the wires go, i know there's 2 earths, and one screws onto the small fuse box next to the fuel cut off switch, but where does the other one with an earth go?
   
   
   
   Cheers, Luke
2. rozaladdd Established Member Joined: Mar 2008 Solihull Posts: 1487 Black/Orange Vtr

   #2 11th January 2011, 19:53

   one goes just onto the gearbox or chasis the negative is what your on about right ?
3. Tontsy Saxperience Addict Joined: Oct 2008 Plymouth, Fiddling - under a two poster ramp Posts: 14064 Audi

   #3 11th January 2011, 19:54

   Live goes to alt
   Neg goes to chassis and block/gearbox

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4. iSlayeR Established Member Joined: Aug 2009 King's lynn Posts: 2073 Turbocharged vtr

   #4 11th January 2011, 19:55

   red one on the left hand side of the battery, i think that's the positive one? need to know where the cable with the screw/thread goes, there's 2, i know one screws into the fuse box, but what about the other
   
   edit: Cheers tonto, that's where i've gone wrong, got some wires mixed up
5. iSlayeR Established Member Joined: Aug 2009 King's lynn Posts: 2073 Turbocharged vtr

   #5 11th January 2011, 21:18

   Help! still really confused, the only cable in the picture that has any chance of reaching the alt is the big earth, but then that leaves the 2 nuts which have nowhere to go.
   
   Where does everything go?
   
   it's a single plug loom from a 1.4 1999 saxo mk1
6. rozaladdd Established Member Joined: Mar 2008 Solihull Posts: 1487 Black/Orange Vtr

   #6 11th January 2011, 21:23

   ye the one goes round to alt then one goes the the fuse box then the 2 together just go down the right by the brake lines as long as you have them on the body work they will be fine, i put one on my gear box also and one on the body work
   
   here this is mine
   
   

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7. Roywalker Newbie Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 24

   #7 11th January 2011, 21:31

   Please don't go putting any of those to earth, you'll burn your car to the ground!
   Thats the positive terminal on your battery
   
   Thelong one to the left goes onto the big terminal on your starter motor.
   
   The others will go to your fuse box on the o/s inner wing
   
   The alternator wire is a chunky one that is seperate and goes from the starter to the alternator

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8. iSlayeR Established Member Joined: Aug 2009 King's lynn Posts: 2073 Turbocharged vtr

   #8 11th January 2011, 21:38

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by Roywalker Please don't go putting any of those to earth, you'll burn your car to the ground! Thats the positive terminal on your battery Thelong one to the left goes onto the big terminal on your starter motor. The others will go to your fuse box on the o/s inner wing The alternator wire is a chunky one that is seperate and goes from the starter to the alternator

   So none in the picture go to the alternator, as you said the big on the left goes into the starter motor, and the other 2 where the fusebox is, correct?
9. Roywalker Newbie Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 24

   #9 11th January 2011, 21:40

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by iSlayeR So none in the picture go to the alternator, as you said the big on the left goes into the starter motor, and the other 2 where the fusebox is, correct?

   As far as I can remember, yop!
10. user_21226 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Feb 2008 wirral Posts: 6348 Icelandic vtr turbo

    #10 12th January 2011, 00:50

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Roywalker Please don't go putting any of those to earth, you'll burn your car to the ground! Thats the positive terminal on your battery Thelong one to the left goes onto the big terminal on your starter motor. The others will go to your fuse box on the o/s inner wing The alternator wire is a chunky one that is seperate and goes from the starter to the alternator

    thank you for beating me to this bud, you will fuck your car if you plug those to the chassis, as roywalker has said 1s for the started motor and the others go iirc to the fuse boxes, theres another wire that runs around the back of the engine for the alternator, the negative terminal is for your earths and there should be 2 of them 1 to the box the other to the shell,
11. iSlayeR Established Member Joined: Aug 2009 King's lynn Posts: 2073 Turbocharged vtr

    #11 12th January 2011, 14:04

    Cheers for the infomation
12. iSlayeR Established Member Joined: Aug 2009 King's lynn Posts: 2073 Turbocharged vtr

    #12 12th January 2011, 17:20

    Still really confused lol, i've got it on the starter motor and on the "small fusebox" but i still have one left, i take it this goes into the "large fusebox" but there's nothing to screw into it, am i missing somthing from the fusebox?
    
    I have the main box with all the fuses in it, and all the wires that go into it from underneath, i also have a yellow multi pin plug witch is attached to a yellow sqaure, but then i have a black plug which can hold two plugs? but i have nothing to put in there?
    
    
    Help!
13. willsy West Midlands Joined: Nov 2005 Nuneaton (West Mids) Posts: 13835 '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S

    #13 12th January 2011, 17:26

    When you look in the main fuse box pull the little black box bit out a bit which is housing the fuses. Ull notice that on the side there is a flap which when opened reveals 2 threaded sections, thats where the cable with the nut fitting screws onto.
    
    Hope that makes sense.
14. iSlayeR Established Member Joined: Aug 2009 King's lynn Posts: 2073 Turbocharged vtr

    #14 12th January 2011, 17:31

    Legend! just went out and found them, thanks mate