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Old 05-06-2024, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by villagetinker View Post
Upon further review of several Yamaha golf cart wiring diagrams, there is a ground connection from the battery negative to the golf cart frame. It appears that this connection may or may not actually be directly from the battery terminal and may be somewhere in the wiring harness. This was my point of confusion. The one or 2 cases where this connection was bad it appears the ground wire was spliced (badly) close to the battery negative terminal and then connected to body ground (somewhere). If this connection fails there are several items that are affected depending on the model of the golf cart. One older model actually shows a FUSE on this connection.
I hope this provides some useful information.
That is the ground where I had a bad crimp that was causing me issues last winter. The cart wouldn’t start, but if I rocked the cart back and forth I got it to work for a while until it happened again. I noticed a burnt spot through the clear crimp housing where the connection was loose and overheating. I cut out the crimp and soldered the wire and used heat shrink tubing and a heat gun to seal up the fix and all has been good since the easy fix. Hopefully the OP’s problem is the same issue with an easy fix.