Starter help

[sebe4848]

So I was replacing my starter today, forgot to take a picture of the wiring, and now I cannot wire my new starter right. Has three wires all together; one big wire, to other wires together, one being very small, and the other is a little bigger. Solenoid has two big connections one top and bottom. They're both pretty big and the one on the bottom has a screw that goes into it. Then the two connections on the side are small, one labeled r the other s. Kinda new at this just bear with me.

 

[chengny]

B Terminal 3/8" - 16 Positive battery cable. Also has an additional two wires (usually red and protected with a fusible link) connected to this stud. They branch off and feed power to various other circuits.


S Terminal #8-32: Wired to the ignition switch START terminal. This is often a purple colored wire.


That should be it. Nothing goes to the R or M terminals:

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[sebe4848]

Ok, so the biggest wire of them all is going to go to the b terminal. The other two wires that are together both go on to the s terminal together?

 

[chengny]

Ok, so the biggest wire of them all is going to go to the b terminal. YEP

There should be two red wires (possibly spliced together)- they go on the B terminal along with the big black

And the purple goes on the S terminal.



So - B gets the black and two reds. S gets the purple.


A couple of images (do not go by my colors - I am extremely color deficient)

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[sebe4848]

Thank you for your help, the illustrations really helped me as well. I ended up getting it all back together then found our that my battery was dead as well. I replaced both components and now she is back up and running again.

 

[89Suburban]

Good job everybody.