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Old 05-14-2016, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by paulywood View Post
Decided to change out to different starter because the original didn't seem up to par when I tried to start it last week. I must have something wrong because when I hooked the battery up it tried to turn over. Here is the diagram for the starter:


Here's the wiring diagram from AAW:


I tried hooking up the positive wire from the battery, the ignition wire and the wire from the alternator all up to the upper terminal on the solenoid. I hooked up the purple ignition wire to the spade terminal.

I'm guessing that I should just move the ignition and alternator wires down to the lower terminal but can't find anything online about it. Can someone help?
You said ignition wire is connected to upper terminal and purple ignition wire to spade terminal. What other ignition wire are you talking about? Purple should come ignition switch and go to spade terminal. Do you have an ignition coil or an HEI distributor? Alt and battery wire should stay on top terminal and nothing else. Power to coil or HEI distributor should be a separate wire from bulkhead connector, looks to be pink according to diagram.
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