My dad has one in his 91. We did this because the clutch nuetral safety was not letting us start the car with the key. His you have to turn the key on and then hit the button, but dont need the clutch pedal in.
My dad has one in his 91. We did this because the clutch nuetral safety was not letting us start the car with the key. His you have to turn the key on and then hit the button, but dont need the clutch pedal in.
thats how i want to do mine, do u remeber what wires u taped into, did u have to run anymore wires to the starter? can u draw a quick skmatic...
Make sure you fuse all that stuff too. Don't want any fires.
My dad has one in his 91. We did this because the clutch nuetral safety was not letting us start the car with the key. His you have to turn the key on and then hit the button, but dont need the clutch pedal in.
unless you're planning to use 4ga wiring to the button, I'd not go that route personally. It sounds like you're basically omitting the relay in effect - only using it to connect all the wires together, but bypassing the internals. There's a reason the battery cables and starter wire are 4ga. I'm no expert, but using small wires to directly supply larger wires with power doesn't sound like a good idea.
If you're going to wire a switch, I'd do it as such:
The red wire that goes onto the "screw" on the top of starter relay comes from the clutch interlock swtich. Really, all you have to do is give that wire 12v and it's active. Normally, it gets the 12v by you pressing the clutch in and turning the key to the "on" position. To bypass the switch, you can do one of two things:
1) Pull (or cut) the wire from both sides of the clutch interlock switch. Wire your start button so that it connects those two wires when you push the button.
2) Cut the red wire from after the clutch interlock switch, fuse it and run it to your start button. Run 12 volts (fused) directly from the battery to your start button. Now when you hit the button, you're sending 12v from the battery to the red wire, which basically is doing the same thing as when you hit the key and push in the clutch.
exactly!!I can't help with the wiring, but my last Mustang had a starter buttom...unfortunately it was already wired so i can't tell you how it was done. The key had to be turned into the on position (so you couldn't just hop in and hit the button and take off, also to unlock the steering wheel). It was cool in a way but also kinda silly, even though it was 80% racecar and 20% street car.
that is what the drawing is showing.i thought thats what the drawing illustratesi did it that way, the way u said to do it
unless you're planning to use 4ga wiring to the button, I'd not go that route personally. It sounds like you're basically omitting the relay in effect - only using it to connect all the wires together, but bypassing the internals. There's a reason the battery cables and starter wire are 4ga. I'm no expert, but using small wires to directly supply larger wires with power doesn't sound like a good idea.
If you're going to wire a switch, I'd do it as such:
The red wire that goes onto the "screw" on the top of starter relay comes from the clutch interlock swtich. Really, all you have to do is give that wire 12v and it's active. Normally, it gets the 12v by you pressing the clutch in and turning the key to the "on" position. To bypass the switch, you can do one of two things:
1) Pull (or cut) the wire from both sides of the clutch interlock switch. Wire your start button so that it connects those two wires when you push the button.
2) Cut the red wire from after the clutch interlock switch, fuse it and run it to your start button. Run 12 volts (fused) directly from the battery to your start button. Now when you hit the button, you're sending 12v from the battery to the red wire, which basically is doing the same thing as when you hit the key and push in the clutch.
I dont understand the whole point of having this. Seems to me that america is becoming lazier by the moment..
exactly!!
that is what the drawing is showing.
the smaller wires on the solenoid are not transmiting power from the battery to the starter they are closing the solenoid so it can relay the power from the battery to the starter. go out and take a look at your cars factory wires they aint 4 gauge!!
Nothing personal man, if you wanna do yours that way, go for it. But, you're gonna need 12v from somewhere. One of those two wires from the Start button is gonna have to pull 12v from either the battery directly or from the ignition switch (or via the wire to the clutch interlock switch). That's how I suggested to do it in my above post. I misunderstood your diagram.
I've seen a starter relay before...
and what exactly is the point of using this start button anyway? You have to push the clutch to shift gears (or at least it's easier), so what's so hard about pushing the clutch in to start the car? Unless the clutch interlock switch is broken, push in the clutch and save the hassle, lol.
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