starter wiring question

[buickpower]

hey guys, i am wiring my starter back up and can't remember exactly how to do it. i hooked up the large and small wires from the battery cable lead to the large and small posts of the starter. Is this correct? Also, there is an offshoot of the main whip right near the oil pressure switch with two wires joined into one end and another separate small one. Do both of these also go on the starter? and are there any others i am missing? thanks in advance

 

[buickpower]

anybody know what wires go on the starter?

 

[buickpower]

ttt

 

[buickpower]

please, could anyone just tell me what wires go to the starter? I know the ones on the positive battery cable, but what other ones?

 

[justin7t]

I will look at my starter tomorrow and try to help. I read your mods is your car still not running if so do you have any recent or old 1/4 times.

 

[buickpower]

thanks, i'd appreciate that. The car is still not running yet, although i expect it to be before the end of the summer. Unfortunately i don't think i will have enough money to put it on the road this summer or take it to the track, but i'm working on it. i am actually wondering what it will run with slicks myself. Have you run yours yet?

 

[justin7t]

Without intercooler stock turbo wrong chip and exhaust leaks my brother ran 14.30 and i ran 14.60. I just got it running with mods on my signature I am hoping for 13's. I am ordering my scanmaster 2 today hopefully because I don want to blow nothing up.

 

[buickpower]

ttt , nobody knows which wires go on the starter?

 

[Mr.Buick]

Starter wiring

You should have 2- fuse links (red) one goes to AC the other goes to Power distribution and black wire from battery hooked to big terminal on starter. Small wire on starter goes to starter interrupt relay. I will send you schematic to your email

 

[buickpower]

power distribution

what do you mean by power distribution? is that the alternator?

 

[buickpower]

pics of the wires i dont know where to put

here are a couple of links to pictures of the wires that i need to know to put. the first one is the positive battery cable lead, the second two are both pictures of wires that are an offshoot of the main harness near the oil pressure switch.

positive cable

fusible links and wire that go where?

another pic of the mystery wires

i apologize for the crappy pics, i went and bought a $40 digital cheapo camera.

btw, where does the negative battery cable attach. sorry for all the questions but it has been over a year since i had the motor out and i cant remember how this wiring went. TIA

 

[Mr.Buick]

Starter wiring

I can't get the pictures to display, it says that I am not the owner of this album.

 

[buickpower]

whoops, sorry about that, go here , and look at pictures called starter wiring 001, 004, 006. the 001 pic is of the positive battery cable lead (need to know where the wires on it go except for the orange one). 004 and 006 are pics of the same wires , the ones that come out as an offshoot by the oil pressure switch area of the harness. on the offshoot there are two fusible links that go into the same eyelet, and there is another separate wire (not sure if it is a fusible link) that has its own eyelet, so it looks just like two eyelets. hope this kind of describes where they are located. btw, i am not putting a/c back on my car, if that matters. TIA

 

[buickpower]

ok, i think i have it. the large black positive battery cable and the eyelet with the 2 fusible links both go on the larger starter post (they are the same size). The medium sized red wire that comes from the positive battery lead must go to the alternator. so the other wire in the same bunch as the two fusible links must be the wire that comes from the starter interrupt relay, and so it must go on the small starter post by itself. before, i had it like this except the alternator wire was attached to the small starter post instead. i touched the positive battery cable to the battery and the starter made a brief bump noise but did not turn over. I touched it again and nothing happened. Do you think this would have damaged something? also, where does the negative battery cable attach to? sorry for the long post, and TIA

 

[3point8]

I had the same problem and did the same thing No harm done though. Once I figured out what the error was I connected the red wire to the alternator and everything was OK.

Peter

 

[Mr.Buick]

Starter wiring

My guess is that you either popped a fuse or one of the fusible links. After you get it wired correctly use a test light to check for power after the fuse link and make sure all the fuses are good.

 

[buickpower]

starter

okay guys, i checked the fusible links and they seem okay. i connected the negative battery cable to the alternator bracket for ground. when i turn the key to start it, i can hear the starter engage, it just doesn't turn over. then i realized that i didn't have a wire on the large part of the starter, (i guess the motor itself?). looks like there is a small terminal on the end of it where an eyelet could go. what wire goes on that terminal? i guess i am engaging the "pull in" and "hold in" windings of the starter solenoid, as the schematic calls them, but not energizing the starter motor. i think it just needs a ground, but which one? TIA

 

[buickpower]

starts

ok, i found that if i hook a jumper cable from the little post on the end of the starter motor to the alternator bracket bolt that goes into the block , the engine starts. So do i need to fabricate a ground or is there some other wire that it is supposed to hook to? TIA

 

[Mr.Buick]

Grounds

There should be a ground wire at the back of the engine to the frame. From the battery neg to the fender and the alternator bracket. A bunch of grounds to the bottom of the alternator bracket. It never hurts to put another ground wire on.

 

[buickpower]

thanks

thanks very much guys, got the starter working fine now . I am getting closer by the day to having the motor running, so please bear with me if I ask alot of questions. thanks again.