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Old 01-21-2016, 06:49 PM   #18
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Re: Routing headlight harness a clean way?

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Ok now you have me curious. How does the starter relay work? I did an ls swap and I have the purple ignition wire to the small post on the starter and a heavier gauge wire to the bigger post straight from the battery.
So right now, the purple wire is carrying the power through the ignition circuit to the starter in order to engage the solenoid and allow the starter to operate.

With a relay the purple wire only operates a tiny switch that sends power straight from the battery to the solenoid and basically bypasses the current flowing through the ignition (purple) wire.
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