Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

I was going to say there must be some kind of brushed contraption for this

Or a wire from the column to the body.

Did the original steering wheel also used the column as an earth?

Has the chasis been powder coated?

What rear end are you going for?

yep. it's mark's car.

he is a fncken champion. i take a pack of hobnobs down there (the std price of advice) and three sets of old kingpins (he uses them in his coilover conversions) and leave with him offering me the workshop on a saturday to build the racer. i would get the benefits of his tools tools and advice -all i have to do not leave it there. amazing.

How do you safely wire a rotating column to a static body? Hence the brush I pictured.

The original wheel has live and ground via the clockspring.

That does look nice and quick. But there is me thinking how much reinforcement to make the car less flexible.

Have you got a multimeter? Does the steering colunm have a metal shroud?

You don't want to hear about the 911 then.

We do, or I do

That's a single connection, and already present. Electricity requires two.

Multimeter?

You ground the steering column down at the rack, to a crossmember.

Upper column is isolated from the lower column (plastic bush), lower column is isolated from the rack (rubber bushing) and finally the track-rods are isolated from the hubs (bushing) and are not themselves grounds.

Multimeter?

What would I do with a multimeter in this situation? The column is not grounded, what needs to be resolved is how to ground it.

Using the continuity setting work out a way to route earth the column.

Or google?

http://www.911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=80323&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Using the continuity setting work out a way to route earth the column.

That's not the problem, the problem is working out how to earth the column.

There is a ground already present, for the old horn.

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Are you getting a link to the 911 site?

Yes, what I cannot see is where it describes how to get the ground to the horn.

3rd reply by GT4?

Where he says this?

"The earth is provided by the steering column splines. "

Have you check that is does?

Have you read the whole thread?

GT4 gives three part numbers

Screw: 999.073.047.02
Finger: 964.652.104.00
Bush: 999.562.639.22

What do these look like in the parts fiche?

Not entirely sure what you mean, but if it's "have you checked that the steering column does not provide a route to earth/ground" take a guess.

Yes, I have read the whole thread, and I can't see the answer I require in there - happy to have it pointed out.

If there's something in there that connects the steering column to earth I'd be very interested.