Originally posted by lt1s10
you all reading to much in the job of the alt. until you get it running forget about the alt. the alt dont carry the motor, its charges the bat up. youve got a starter staying engaged, the best thing you can do with the alt. is unhook it until you fix the starter or you gonna burn up the alt up to. until you turn the ign on there should not be any volts at the starter, if you do have valtage at the starter with key off then go back up the wiring find out where its shorted. a ford starter will go bad an turn on it own sometimes, but its a matter of using the wiring diagram that danny sent you, you should be able to wire the sol.
I will agree with you mike if he hook up the positive to the battery and it gives a spark,starts welding the clamp to the post and begins to start the motor.would tell me he has a bare wire some ware shorting out and if it trying to start this was his problem to begin with he needs to look for any wires that are bare that are laying up agiinst maybe a header pipe