stupid starter ?

Raist103

Engine Killer, iPhone Killer, Lawnmower Killer
do you have to jump the 2 term on the starter when using a ford starter seinoid? if so why? i put the alt line and battery wire to one end and the other end goes to the starter. then you have the 2 middle term one is for whatever wire that is that goes from the old power wire on the battery to the headlight area. and the other front term is empty. why does it not work when it is not jumped on the starter? just tring to learn since i forget to jump the starter terms now i have to crawl back under and pull uit again and do not really feel like it.
 

Raist103

Engine Killer, iPhone Killer, Lawnmower Killer
nothing yet i have not had time to find out were it is leaking from yet although i do have a thought now. in the front of the block on the passanger side there seems to be a piece missing but i did not have anyne to pure water in while i was under it to see if that is it or not. maybe you or someone else will know if this is normal. in the front of the block on the bottom corner 2 cirlces kind of like if you held to glasses of water next to each other. OO but closer? i can stick my finger in but i can not feel were it ends.
 

InvisiBill

Active member
If you do it like http://syty.huryde.com/html/tech/starter.htm shows, you're splicing the Ford solenoid into the main hot wire to the starter. Instead of being hot all the time, it's now switched. So you bridge the "hot" terminal of the starter to the "switch" terminal of the starter solenoid.

Note that someone recommended NOT doing it this way. The "starter click" problem doesn't have anything to do with the main power wire to the starter, so why mess with it? Putting the solenoid in and using that wire to also trigger the starter solenoid can put more load on it, leading to the starter motor having less power to turn.

The solenoid circuit is the one that has problems, so a Hot Shot-style relay should take care of your problems. Use the existing purple wire (the one going to the solenoid's "switch" terminal) to trigger a relay, which feeds power from a hot source (the main starter wire, the battery, etc.) to the starter solenoid's "switch" terminal (where the purple wire used to go). In our case, I'd feed the relay from the battery or something. The Hot Shot instructions say to use the hot terminal on the starter, but all the heat down there is one of the main causes of all our starter problems...
 
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