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With respect, I have learned early on to abandon all braided earth straps. Three Morgans all seem to fail fcaused by them and diagnosis is made tricky because:
1. they look good..but from only one side
2. They most often show their inadequacy when placing a draw on them..otherwise they test fine. Anything that dubious should be better unless one is a
fanatical traditionalist who prefers inevitable failure to reliability.

As an example, I am showing a braided battery earth strap removed in France, recto verso. It would fail only when engaging the starter. My first such experience
was my first Morgan lesson the day after I bought my first Morgan. In that case the breaded earth strap, engine to frame failed stopping the car cold on the highway.

I use one earth strap to the battery and two from the engine (there are fittings for them at the rear of the all LR Plus 8 engines). We are not the only ones using
these V8s for 60+ years...the other part of that community have become wiser over time. Frustration is pathetically easy to avoid before it happens,

gmg