BloodRedSilverado

I believe I bought it from Napa.

Update: Almost a month and still no issues. I think I can actually say I finally fixed the problem.

Bump Either will work as long as it is rated to handle the load you expect to use it for. I believe on amp wire it actually states to be battery cable. I wouldn't go with anything smaller than 4 gauge on your battery cable though.

most of the older trucks arent. Really didn't matter to me, but since the oem cable came loomed, I figured I'd keep it that way on my new cable

I forgot to also add that a 4 gauge cable is about a large as you want to go without interferring with the ground sensor... I just barely fit both cables inside it .

I'm unsure what kind of pics everybody wants to see. Basicly I took two 4 gauge cables and ran them seperate (one to the frame and the other to the alt) from the battery. Very simple. Only difference is I used 4 gauge cable on the frame cable and I know my connections are bulletproof considering I installed them.. I took some pics but the cable itself is wireloomed to look more OEM. The actual cable is the same size as the wireloom itself.I couldn't get a precise pic of the framerail connection(too dark), but its pretty straightforward. This fix is actually easy with just having the right cable/connections and a little time. In my opinion it was worth every second without having to doubt whether I will encounter the same problems I have been for the past year. However it's a shame I couldn't get GM to fix this under the 3 year warranty....

The cable from the battery ground is spliced and runs to both the alt and the frame. The frame cable is actually alot smaller than the ground running to the alt... So i ran 4 gauge to both places. Not reallly sure if it is a big problem but most of the trucks electrical devices is grounded to the frame. And because of that I wanted to have a larger ground in that area.

Same thing with my 08 sierra denali. Dealer cant find problem and hate to spend $100 dollars on cable. But I think I'm gonna go ahead and bite the bullet and buy one! I thought about it, and I got to thinking of the possibility of having the same problem down the road and $100 less in my bank. Clearly there's a problem with these cables.

This fix has taken alot of weight off my shoulders... I will post pics of the cables I built when I get back off work.

Ok so I'm fed up with the issue on the electrical problems with the New Silverado/Sierra's. Over the past year, everybody has probably glanced over my posts with the problems... (Dimming/surging of the electrical systems which causes my truck to go crazy). I can drive down the road and create a surge such as operating a couple items and it starts shutting down my abs/stabilitrack,airbags, door locks,ect. I have went from one end of the truck to the other cleaning grounds,installing a new battery,testing the alt with only a fix for only a week or so.. Cleaning the ground would only last a short time before my truck would surge again. Well with a recent discovery after getting home one night, I noticed that the ground cable on the battery was hot as hell. Now I have heard about the bulletin on the ground cable but considering my warranty went out a week after I starting having these problems ( go figure) there no way in hell I'm gonna spend $100 on a ground cable... Not to mention having the same problem again considering there has to be a problem with these cables. I also discovered out of the two cables (alt/frame) that the frame cable actually is quite small. So i took it apon myself to build my own cable which I know will be flawless. So I took two New 4 gauge battery cables and made one the same length as the oem one.... Now before I could always make my truck go crazy whether holding down two windows at a time or whatnot.... But for the past three weeks I haven't had one blip not to mention none of my lights dim at all when i use several electrical items... All i can say is I'm happy that I can now ride peacefully, considering it only took a hour to make the cable..Btw I did have GM look at my truck during the warranty and they could not diagnose the problem. later