Need to wire the solenoid
The large red cable from the battery should go to the large terminal on one side of the solenoid. The opposite side of the battery solenoid connection goes to the starter So now you have a heavy cable going from the battery to one side of the solenoid and another heavy cable (red) going to the starter connection. There should also be a small wire coming from the ignition switch to the small terminal on solenoid. If there are two small
terminals on solenoid, ground the other one. To test the ignition switch, just turn the key and see if you get 12 volts, then you know that part is good. If not, check your ignition switch. So, back to the solenoid-----. If
there are two small solenoid terminals with nuts for wires on the solenoid then the wires could be mixed up. So just reverse the two small wires and try again.
You would think they would make things easy and say on the solenoid, Battery connection here, and Starter connection here, and ignition switch wire here, but no, just nothing for the most part.
So now remember this is nothing more than a lightswitch type of a mechanism where instead of using your finger to flick the switch, we are using a small electric charge to momentarily close the light switch, in this case the starter motor, same idea.
Hey mate,
the solenoid has to large poles and one small a heavy guage wire runs from the positive terminal on your battery to one of the big poles then another heavy guage wire runs from the other big pole to the pole on the base of the starter motor and that is complete,
Then you need a multi meter to trace the trigger wire from the back of the ignition switch this is a wire that will have 12volts DC only when the ignition key is turned fully to the start position and 0 volts then the ignition switch is in the run position, this wire is the wire that gets connected to the little terminal at the base of the solenoid, when that wire is charged it triggers the solenoid to complete the circuit to the starter motor...
Hope you find this hepful:)
Brad
Have a photo of that??? My wiring is all rigged !!
SOURCE: solenoid wires to be replaced
I posted this for a similar question.
The large red cable from the battery should go to the large terminal on
one side of the solenoid. The opposite side of the battery solenoid
connection goes to the starter So now you have a heavy cable going from
the battery to one side of the solenoid and another heavy cable (red)
going to the starter connection. There should also be a small wire
coming from the ignition switch to the small terminal on solenoid. If
there are two small
terminals on solenoid, ground the other one. To test the ignition
switch, just turn the key and see if you get 12 volts, then you know
that part is good. If not, check your ignition switch. So, back to the
solenoid-----. If there are two small solenoid terminals with nuts for
wires on the solenoid then the wires could be mixed up. So just reverse
the two small wires and try again.
You
would think they would make things easy and say on the solenoid,
Battery connection here, and Starter connection here, and ignition
switch wire here, but no, just nothing for the most part.
So
now remember this is nothing more than a lightswitch type of a
mechanism where instead of using your finger to flick the switch, we
are using a small electric charge to momentarily close the light
switch, in this case the starter motor, same idea.
here is a typical starter/solenoid wiring diagram used on all ford lawn tractors and 99 percent of craftsman/ayp mowers hope this helps........
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