Bullseye224

I recently bought a clean low mileage 1990 4x4 sapphire and have been giving it the once over, I'm relatively new to Fords as our garage deals mainly with VW and Audi.

There were a few spots of rust that are being dealt with (nothing major just surface thankfully, pics to follow) also a steering problem where the car seems to over lock on both sides and only stop when alloy hits the anti roll bar and the tie rod!

But thats for another day!

Whats giving me the hump today is my front lights are gone haywire and I'm thinking its a bad earth, from what I hear Sierras sometimes suffer from this. I'm sure this has been dealt with a million times but I'm just wondering if there was ever a thread when all the earth strap locations were listed. I'm awear there would be a good few but I intend finding them all and making sure they are all ok.

Anyone else take the sort them all out once and for all approach??

Things like this bug me!!
CheeRS

Moonstone Steve.

iTrader: (2)

your main battery earth should be easy to find m8, there a re a couple behind the lights which bolt to a couple of uprights near the intercooler.

Steve

Jimboxr4x4

Could have an xr4x4 rack in. I believe these are the same ratio as a cossie one but allow slighly further travel. Someone should be able to confirm this.

Bullseye224

ya, I've thought about all the possible reasons and I've come to the same conclusion that its a wrong rack. I know the previous owner changed the rack but he had bigger alloys on so it would have been ok. Was thinking it could be a P100 rack or something.

Got a pic. of the tie rod too big to post here though! You can see where its rubbing the inside of the alloy and hitting the outside of the anti-roll bar


the inside of the rim has marked the anti-roll bar


Thanks dude.

tabetha

As said not a cossie rack, the cossie rack has less travel, I had this on my sierra when I fitted cossie size wheels.
The earth problems are nearly alwasy the actual headlight connectors that plug into the light unit, I use a seperate earth to each light.
tabetha