I am reinstalling a 5.9 magnum into a 1996 dodge 4x4. Got the truck for 200 bucks, engine was in the bed. lol I have the puzzle almost completed except for one ground wire. Nooo idea where it goes. Anyone recognize it?

 

Looking at the stud on the one terminal, that looks like a valve cover bolt..... But, just offhand, I don't know where the rest of it would go.

 

it goes from the valve cover to the trucks cab to a transmission bellhousing bolt

 

I can't quite make out the Y part. Does it look like a battery connection? If it does, it's the fender mounted ground wire that goes from the fender to the battery . Otherwise, it looks like the firewall to engine ground wire. These keep all your lights and accessories working well. GM used cable shifters back in the 1960's and 70's and a bad ground like that would have the starter ground through the shift cable and melt it.

 

I have a ground from firewall to bell housing bolt. It looks like a valve cover bolt for sure. lol. My 94 dodge doesnt have this one. I guess I'll pull a valve cover bolt out, and use this from there to bellhouse, and to body also? Its the last piece of this nightmare puzzle.Thanks for the replies.

 

On my 97 it went from the valve cover, to the bell housing and finished at the firewall right next to the ac accumulator.

 

I took a pic of a unmolested 95 318 that had two ground wires. Both bolted to the back of each head.