All,
I hooked up my gear reduction starter as Randall described below, and turne
the engine over with the starter for the first time since 1975 when this
restoration project was first parked in an Ossinee, NY shed, where
delinquent racoons gifted it with a 30 year fecal mural.
Thanks, Randall!
Terry Smith, '59 Tr3A (hooked up the starter and fuel lines today. Will
probably start the engine on July 4th weekend. Let's hope for a bang but
not an explosion!)
New Hampshire
>> I can take the heavy cable that WAS the second post of the solenoid, and
>> move it to share the same solenoid post with the battery cable,
>> and attach
>> the other end of that cable to the big post on the gear reduction
>> starter.
>>
>> Then, I take a 12 or 14 gauge wire, run it from the old (now
>> vacant) second
>> post, to the spade on the gear reduction starter.
>>
>> The white with red wire from the starter push switch to the spade on the
>> solenoid, remains unchanged?
>
> That's right, Terry. Except that the new wire doesn't need to be that
> heavy, 16 or even 18 AWG would do. This wire (and the original solenoid)
> now only carry current for the new solenoid, which as I recall I measured
> at
> about 7 amps on the starter I got from TRF.
>
>> If I have this right, I like it! You're right. It would seem to
>> shut the
>> current out of the solenoid directly to the new starter built for it.
>
> You're right, I forgot to mention that before. By unloading the contacts
> in
> the original solenoid, it should last much longer. Might be just because
> it was "tired", but I could measure the voltage drop across my old
> solenoid
> too, so my configuration should deliver just a little bit more to the new
> starter.
>
> Randall
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