{"id":20490,"date":"2025-10-28T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/?p=20490"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:28:44","slug":"high-voltage-battery-pack-rear-ground-strap-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/?p=20490","title":{"rendered":"High-Voltage Battery Pack Rear Ground Strap Bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New high-voltage battery packs for 2022-2026 HUMMER EVs, BrightDrop EVs; 2024-2026 Silverado EV, Sierra EV; and 2025-2026 ESCALADE IQ models are now shipped to the dealership without the rear ground strap and\/or the rear ground strap mounting bracket, which have been eliminated in production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The removal of the rear ground strap bracket has required an update to the high-voltage battery pack installation procedure in Service Information. (Fig. 12)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20486\" src=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F12-Bracket-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"480\" \/><strong>Fig. 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If there is a rear ground strap bracket (Fig. 13) on the new high-voltage battery pack, bolt the strap back on to the battery pack during installation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20487\" src=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F13-Bracket-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"480\" \/><strong>Fig. 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, if there is not a bracket on the new high-voltage battery pack (Fig. 14), remove the rear ground strap from the vehicle and discard the ground strap.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20488\" src=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F14-Bracket-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"480\" \/><strong>Fig. 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, refer to Hybrid\/Electric Vehicle Battery Pack Removal and Installation in the appropriate Service Information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>&#8211; Thanks to John Riker<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New high-voltage battery packs for 2022-2026 HUMMER EVs, BrightDrop EVs; 2024-2026 Silverado EV, Sierra EV; and 2025-2026 ESCALADE IQ models are now shipped to the dealership without the rear ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-october-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20501,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490\/revisions\/20501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}