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Old 10-11-2009, 11:21 PM
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About the same thing gtome said

The ford solenoid is just a heavy duty relay. Battery (+) cable goes to one side and the other side goes to the starter. You hook your original starter solenoid engage wire (purple) to the little post on the ford solenoid. Then when you turn the switch to crank position, the ford solenoid trips/engages and sends power down to the starter.

You'll need a jumper or copper strip to hook from the battery cable stud on the starter solenoid to the 'S' terminal on the solenoid. 'S' terminal is where the original purple engage wire was hooked up.

Hooked up this way, the solenoid gets more power for starting/engaging. The starter has the same amount of power as before. The ford relay just turns the power on and off going down to the starter.

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Last edited by "QUICK-SILVER"; 10-11-2009 at 11:23 PM. Reason: gtome types faster