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The negative battery cable has three ground offshoots - one that bolts to the inner fender near the electrical box, one that bolts to the top of the transmission, and the third branch that runs from the top of the transmission and bolts where??? Thanks for your help!
Here is a Parts Catalogue for your car, it doesn't appear as if a Negative Battery Terminal is supposed to have a third wire to it, a picture of your setup would be helpful. In any case, extra Ground would never hurt, bolt it to any solid metal piece on the car, that would suffice.
Thanks to those who responded. Sorry it took a while for me to respond.
Attached are a couple of pix showing the connections. First pic is an unedited photo. Second pic. has red circles and numbers showing the wire mounting locations.
#1 is Negative Battery Terminal. #2 is bolted to top of transmission bell housing and has #3 (location needed) wire running from it (#2). #4 is mounted to the inner LH wall inside the engine bay.
lug on top of transmission, large wire goes to the battery other wire goes to the frame of the igniter mount. Notice the extra relay (small circle) I added that.
for context
On your car, take this wire and bolt it to the transmission (notice on my car this is missing, I'm repairing the wire)
I can't quite see the lug going to the transmission in your picture, there is a thick wire and a thinner wire where is the thinner wire on your car going? It should go to the igniter frame. I recommend you add a starter relay the car doesn't have one this means high current goes though the ignition switch. These cars are famous for a no start condition because not enough current gets to the starter solenoid. Adding a relay fixes this.
ES250 - Grounding Wire Location Help Needed
