battery won't hold charge

[UNCC_99XJ]

Glad to see it looks like you got the problem fixed! Funny how something as simple as a ground wire, can really screw up everything, and give symptoms of stuff that's completely wrong...lol.

 

[8Mud]

Glad to see it looks like you got the problem fixed! Funny how something as simple as a ground wire, can really screw up everything, and give symptoms of stuff that's completely wrong...lol.

People forget that the ground is actually the return path for each and every wire in the system. It completes the circuit.
Largely irrelevant, but the last time I heard they were still arguing which way the electrons actually did flow, from positive to negative or from negative to positive.
It sounded like he was talking about the block to firewall ground wire. I'd still take a close look at the negative battery to block ground. The firewall ground may be the alternate ground path for the starter, if the major ground from the block to the battery is making poor contact.

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

People forget that the ground is actually the return path for each and every wire in the system. It completes the circuit.
Largely irrelevant, but the last time I heard they were still arguing which way the electrons actually did flow, from positive to negative or from negative to positive.

True. I remember my Physics teacher in HS last year talking about there is much question as to which way electrons really do flow....

 

[Blaine B.]

Fine, bothways. You need both wires for it to work. Done!