1951 Kaiser Battery Ground Location

[Cortes121]

Does anyone have a diagram or good picture of where the ground strap attaches to on the engine or front plate? I don't believe mine was factory correct.

Any advice would be wonderful

[joefrazer]

Look under the driver side motor mount and on the vertical surface of the engine mount plate there will be a hole. Your ground strap mounts there. In addition, there should be a short...just about 6 inch long strap that runs from the same spot to a hole in the frame. The straps mount to the engine plate with a nut/bolt/washer assembly and the short strap mounts to the frame with a self tapping bolt/lockwasher.

[84RabbitGTI]

When I got my '51 Kaiser, the ground just went to the bolt on top of the motormount.  That's the way it still is.  Better to ground it the way joefrazer has it, but for my car, this has worked for a long time.

[Cortes121]

Joefrazer,

My strap was mounted there, at the hole under the motor mount on the front plate. But the 6 inch strap to the frame is missing, and there is not hole in frame nearby, or at least if there is I'm not seeing it. Do you have a good picture or illustration of that second hole?

84RabbitGTI,

My strap won't even fit over the bolt on the mount.. interesting.

[84RabbitGTI]

Cortes121: I bought a new replacement strap at a local battery dealer, and the only ones they had were either way too long or way too short to be of any use.  I also found that the mounting hole in the side the goes to the frame was much too small to fit over that engine mount stud.  I would have enlarged the hole if I was going to used the strap, but I ultimately returned it due to it being much too long.
I haven't found anyone who makes custom straps yet, but haven't looked too hard.

[84RabbitGTI]

The ground strap that came with my car.  It seems to me that it would be kind of electrically isolated from the body/frame, but it seems to work just fine.