starter motor wiring up correct?

[Sterling]

my starter motor is the bosch pre engaged.... ive ordered it and it shoudl arrive soon, now

the big contact on the solenoid obviously goes to the big red wire.

there are 2 other wires, one is to engage the solenoid, the other does nothing i can see.

i was told to run one of those to the negative side of the coil, and what about the solenoid engagment wire, can that just be connected to the big red lead?

(using a jumper cable and a battery, i tested them, touch wire on the right to POSITIVE and main contact to POSITIVE while a ground is connected, the starter motor engages and spins up, when i connect to the other wire (as far as i can remember) did nothing...)

and help or opinions??

[greenmk2]

Originally Posted by Sterling

my starter motor is the bosch pre engaged.... ive ordered it and it shoudl arrive soon, now

the big contact on the solenoid obviously goes to the big red wire.

there are 2 other wires, one is to engage the solenoid, the other does nothing i can see.

i was told to run one of those to the negative side of the coil, and what about the solenoid engagment wire, can that just be connected to the big red lead?

(using a jumper cable and a battery, i tested them, touch wire on the right to POSITIVE and main contact to POSITIVE while a ground is connected, the starter motor engages and spins up, when i connect to the other wire (as far as i can remember) did nothing...)

and help or opinions??

get a test light. there should be a wire down around the starter area when you hit the ignition key to start position it should light up.

[Sterling]

i origonally had the 1600 engine with the inertia starter, so theres only one wire, the red one, what about the other 2 wires on the solenoid of the 2 litre starter?

[greenmk2]

Originally Posted by Sterling

i origonally had the 1600 engine with the inertia starter, so theres only one wire, the red one, what about the other 2 wires on the solenoid of the 2 litre starter?

Just test the starter with the jumper leads like you did before and the small terminal that makes the starter engage and turn over hook that up to that red wire. dont worry to much about the other wires for now..

Those other two terminals one is for boosting the coil with 12v on start up and the other is for auto trans solanoid...

You wont have to hook up that wire to coil if you have electronic ignition though. I just got magna dizzy and swaped the guts over cost me $15. Both escort dizzys and magna dizzys are both made by bosch so their identical inside..

[Sterling]

yeh cool man ill see how i go

[Sterling]

when u sed "other 2 terminals" do they both do the same thing? cuz how do i know what to connect the boost coil wire to?

(on the solenoid, AND + or - of the coil?)

[Sterling]

come on, somebody has to know this

[mopog]

on ya solenoid you will have linked big red wire (battery positive) to smaller terminal. this should only leave one terminal not used, as greenmk2 said it is a 12v output when cranking the car this will go to the positive of your coil(hooking to coil negative will burn out your points). as said earlier if your running electronic ign you wont require this wire. the piont for this output is to provide 12v to the coil only when cranking this gives more spark hence easier starting, commonly called the easy start terminal.

[Sterling]

sorry, my car is in my barn so i only get to see it for about an hour after work...

ok thanks i was mistaken i thought there was one more contact