ground to frame - winch in rear

I assumed that the stock 1st gen tacoma's have a ground from the battery to frame. Is this not the case?

The reason why i ask is I wired a winch connection to the rear (winch in carrier) and when i created a good clean ground to the frame, might winch doesn't power.

So i need to create a ground from battery to frame up at the front of the truck?

Thanks for input.

 

The only ground path from the frame to the battery is thru the brake lines.
You will need a dedicated ground cable to the battery or half ass it with a battery->frame ground cable, not the best approach.

 

Definantly not a good idea.

 

Thanks for the input. I thought it was pretty standard for vehicles to use the frame as a ground. I will go ahead and run the ground back to the battery.

cheers

 

For anybody who comes across this,
the chief reason why its a bad idea to use the frame as a ground for an application like this, is because steel is far less conductive than copper. So overall you're going to see major power loss (I^2 x R)