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Formally called the Chevrolet C/K, C/K is a series of trucks manufactured by General Motors and marketed under the Chevrolet and GMC brands. The C/K line includes pickup trucks, medium-duty, and heavy trucks.

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Ground wire getting hot and melting

Just did a rebuild on my 92 silverado 350 4x4 ive checked double checked and even triple checked my grounds still wont start. Had it started for awhile and it stayed running if i had my foot n it otherwise died, but the battery kept draining so replaced battery with new one now wont do anything acts like its still dead barely turns over and my ground wire from the head to the firewall got red hot and melted so in the process of replacing that. Im stumped got any ideas??

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Update (05/21/2018)

I don't know what's up with Jordan's ground wire problem. That was two years ago.

You need to be more specific.

"I'm having this issue as wall" doesn't tell me anything. Do you want help?

Jordan probably hooked his battery ground to the car or truck frame not the engine block. So when he cranked the starter, which can pull over an hundred amps, the negative connection from the starter had to go through the little wire that grounds the frame. Not big enough to ground a starter.

Battery grounds have to go the engine block. Period.

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Im having this issue as well did you figure out what the cause was

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