AOG - Battery/alternator/starter problem----solved :)

[JordanGrant]

Mike, can you change the title of the thread so it doesn't look like I need help still?

[Mike S]

Originally Posted by JordanGrant

Mike, can you change the title of the thread so it doesn't look like I need help still?

Sure, consider it done.

[Mike H]

Glad it worked out OK. Gotta love it when a fix does not cost a few hundred dollars.

[Ironflight]

Great story with a good ending Jordan. It is so easy (happens to all of us) to zero in on a particular "solution" to a problem and miss other potential causes - glad you had an open mind and found the issue so easily.

Before airplanes and engines got complicated, gauges were all mechanical and analog, so the only wires running to the engine were the ground, starter cable, alternator wires, and mag P-Leads. If the ground path got disrupted, you usually ended up smoking the P-Leads when the starter curren tried to go back through them....

Paul

[bhester]

I had that same bolt come out, but my ground wire does not go there.
I also put two grounds to my engine, just in case one come loose. One goes direct to the tree of tabs ground point and the other goes to a screw under the breather tube clamp.
Just throwing that out there, might be a good idea.

[Pat Hatch]

I'm a believer in two ground wires as well after this happened to me. In my case it destroyed a couple of control cables, can't remember if it was mixture or throttle or prop, but a good idea to check these at some point.