Thread: Starter Wiring Help

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If you use the one that goes to the coil, yes. The idea is, while you are cranking it is feeding pure 12 volts to the coil to fire the engine better. Otherwise, your normal run position goes through a resistor that drops it down to something like 7 volts so as not to cook your coil. When you release the key back to the run position, 12 volts stops flowing out of that other skinny terminal.

The other wire is the one that is hot only when you are holding the key to the start position. It feeds 12 volts to the solenoid to make the starter crank. You and test it by jamming a screwdriver between the fat one and the skinny one nearest to the engine block. The engine should crank while you are doing that.

Don

Being in cold, cold Philly, you probably should have that 12 volts hooked up to the coil. (lol)