My Friend Has A Problem

[Crump]

His Ground Wire in the trunk, gets really hot when he uses it for more than 15 minutes. He used a self tapping screw and it held ok, but he thought it might come out. He put Electrical tape on the ring terminal to keep it down. Is it the tape? or a bad ground?

[15VmaxXL]

Did he use the same size power wire as his ground? make sure when he grounded his wire he didnt hit something on the other side. Would be a dee dee dee move.

[Crump]

Did he use the same size power wire as his ground? make sure when he grounded his wire he didnt hit something on the other side. Would be a dee dee dee move.

yes both 0 guage, and i looked at where the screw went its clean.

[Guest]

try using a bolt and washer instead of a screw, could be a poor connection.

[Guest KyleCannon]

Do above and check the resistance of the wire with a multimeter. try to hit a clean grounding point near the terminal connector and at the end of the wire.