Do I have my starter hooked up correctly?

[88 Fox GT]

I am using a 1994 starter that came on my 5.0, which is a high-torque starter. It has the main (large) power wire and has a smaller (12 ga.) power wire. This is how I have it hooked up to the starter solenoid. Is this correct for a high-torque starter?

I know that a stock, "low torque", starter would have ONLY the large power wire, which would be hooked on the RIGHT side of the solenoid. So, am I right to switch the large power wire from the right to the left side and install the small wire on the right side? The starter works fine, but I want to verify that I have it installed correctly.

 

[oboebrian]

Does the newer starter have an internal starter solenoid? If it does (which i'm pretty sure it does), what you did makes sense since there is a large "feed" wire and a smaller switched wire. And if so then the way you hooked it up would also makes sense and work.....


re-reading this makes me hope i made sense. But i think i should hit the hay after 20 hrs of studying for finals.

 

[88 Fox GT]

I am guessing it does. I'm pretty confident I have it hooked up correctly, as I just read this site.

http://www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2001/08/ministarter/index2.shtml

 

[WORTH]

If you want to retain the old starter solinoid,

remove the cable that used to go to the starter and put it to the battery side of the solinoid so it is hot all the time and run that to the large starter post.

then run a 12 guage wire from the solinoid post that used to have the starter cable on it and run that to your small terminal on the starter.

 

[88 Fox GT]

WORTH, that's exactly how I've got it hooked up. Sounds like it's all good.
Thanks!

 

[WORTH]

WORTH, that's exactly how I've got it hooked up. Sounds like it's all good.
Thanks!

ya, sorry, the picture you drew didn't load for me so I didn't know it was right until now

 

[HistoricMustang]

 

[WORTH]

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