silveradoTornado
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How bad can a faulty ground mess things up in a truck? Long story short everything worked fine, I pulled the tranny had it rebuilt put everything back together and now I have issues. I don't even know where to start, first thing I noticed is the brake lights quit working, blinkers worked running lights work just no brake lights. Now the strange part the brake light was illuminated on the dash and the engine was surging like something was drawing down on it. soon as I hit the brakes it would quit. I ended up pulling the wires out of the ABS module the dash light went out and the engine quit surging. Brake lights were working so I thought all was well. It started raining so I turned the wipers on much to my surprise they don't work. All fuses are good and can hear them trying to work but they won't kick on. Also when I try turning them on you can tell it's taxing the electrical system as the engine will bog down and sometimes even die. Now even with that black abs deal unplugged the brake lights aren't working so I am guessing it was just a fluke.
I did notice on the passenger side firewall the ground strap form the firewall to the block was broken, looks like there are two straps from the firewall one to the frame one to the engine. I plan to replace that but not sure if that is enough to cause those kind of issues?
I did notice on the passenger side firewall the ground strap form the firewall to the block was broken, looks like there are two straps from the firewall one to the frame one to the engine. I plan to replace that but not sure if that is enough to cause those kind of issues?