Location of Negative Ground Stud 2021 Ram 1500 Longhorn

[RBJ]

I am curious if anyone has located a stud for use as a Negative Ground connection while using a Battery Tender. I prefer to not use the negative terminal on the battery itself. Other trucks/cars I have owned all had a separate bolt stud marked as a ground connection, but not so for a 2021 Ram 1500 Longhorn apparently. Please advise.

 

[mikeru82]

I haven't ever connected a battery tender or any other type of battery charger. But you can always ground to any exposed bare metal on the engine or cylinder head(s).

 

[Aseras]

The nicely painted factory ground lugs are just to the right of the battery, by the hood strut. Can't miss them.

 

[RBJ]

Thanks will check for the studs to the right of the battery near the hood strut, Surprised that these ground lugs are NOT marked as such.
Again, thanks!

 

[Nukegm426]

A lot of manufacturers don’t design for people to add things to their vehicles. Therefore they don’t Mark things like that. Some do so as a point for jump starting but that’s it.

 

[2019REBEL]

Look in the wheel wells behind both headlights and on the fender bedside the battery there are multiple grounds. Pick one.

 

[Drewster]

For a battery tender you actually want the clamps on the battery itself - it's tending to the battery, after all. Jumping the vehicle is when you want to find a ground on the engine, because current is going through the engine itself to the starter.