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Re: WIRE MY SOLENOID...PLEASE [Re: Racebuddy] #1045641
08/03/11 09:49 PM
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THANKS EVERYBODY FOR THE INPUT. i GOT IT DOWN NOW SO LOOK FOR ME TO BE GIVING WIRING ADVICE ON MOPARTS NOW. LOL

C ya at the track

Re: WIRE MY SOLENOID...PLEASE [Re: Racebuddy] #1045642
08/03/11 09:57 PM
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THANKS EVERYBODY FOR THE INPUT. i GOT IT DOWN NOW SO LOOK FOR ME TO BE GIVING WIRING ADVICE ON MOPARTS NOW. LOL

C ya at the track




So did you get it done and functioning

Re: WIRE MY SOLENOID...PLEASE [Re: mopar400] #1045643
08/03/11 10:07 PM
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I'd like to try to help. I've been doing this on race cars & Coca Cola vehicles since the early 70's. Remember when GM spent a fortune trying to get their starters to spin after 'hot soak'?
First- Run a battery cable from battery positive to one side of the solenoid. Also attach a #10 wire to that same terminal & run it into the cabin for all you power needs. (Add one or two more wires if necessary for power.) On a stock wiring harness, these wires were attached to the starter big post. Why, I never figured out.
Second- Run a battery cable down to your starter, the big post. Put a good bridge from the starter big post to the starter small post. No other wires should be hooked to the starter but the battery cable.
Third- Inside the cabin, run a small wire from a battery positive wire from a good source under your dash to your starter switch, hopefully a button. Run the same size wire thru your neutral safety switch & back out to your Ford solenoid, small post. You can easily tell which post by simply touching a wire from battery positive (the big post) to one of the small posts. If the solenoid 'makes' (a loud click), attach your small wire there. The other post is not used. It was for shooting a full 12 or 13 volts to the ignition coil on points type ignitions, bypassing the coil resistor, for a hotter spark while starting. Once running & the starter button switch released, the voltage went thru the resistor to the coil, preventing burning up the points.
Using the Ford solenoid gets all wiring out from under the motor where burnt wires & shorts can occur. Also, you now have a great place to connect your timing light & your remote starter button for bumping the motor a degree at a time.
Hope this helps. If you want more details, pm me.

Re: WIRE MY SOLENOID...PLEASE [Re: MR_P_BODY] #1045644
08/04/11 07:36 AM
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Yep, got her spinning the starter and full power to the switch panel.
the jumper wire to the starter...i had never used that method B4.

It works and I am tickled
Thanx again MOPAR BROTHERS




Re: WIRE MY SOLENOID...PLEASE [Re: Racebuddy] #1045645
08/04/11 03:32 PM
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Re: WIRE MY SOLENOID...PLEASE [Re: mopar400] #1045646
08/04/11 04:39 PM
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Glad to hear you got it right. Mr.P is dead right as Ford made two solenoids that looked like that. The one is for short time like Mr.P said as it will work the starter and it made to be on no more then 30 to 45 seconds at most. The small S terminal comes from the ign switch start terminal for power in the start position only. The small I terminal was for the ign resister bypass in the crank mode as the contact inside it sent 12 volts out to the coil in the crank position. The other solenoid that I remember only had one small terminal as it got power from where ever the operater wanted it to be on which most of the time was in the ign run position. It would stay on a long time as they were used on alot of tow trucks to power the yellow overhead rotating tow lights. Ron

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