Big Block Street

[cobrakiwi]

Originally Posted by patrickt

A cap with a wiggly hinge on it might not meet the "less than one ohm" test. If it doesn't, then touching it with your hands, after rubbing your butt on the leather seats while wearing wool pants, would be just like shuffling your feet across the carpet and then touching the doorknob on your wooden door. You can get a spark if the planets are aligned just right.

Yes I agree with that, so what? You will touch the cap to open the cap to fill the car right, I still don't see how that is any different if the cap has a strap to any place on the car or not.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by cobrakiwi

Yes I agree with that, so what? You will touch the cap to open the cap to fill the car right, I still don't see how that is any different if the cap has a strap to any place on the car or not.

I don't see not running a ground wire to the cap as being a large risk. In theory, there's bound to be some goofy way that the charge on the cap could be different than the potential of the rest of the car. Probably because air passes over it or some such reasoning. I wouldn't worry about it though and my cap has no ground wire and I don't plan on installing one. But my fuel inlet certainly is grounded with a bonding wire. Of course, my body is plastic. At least my car's body is.