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Originally Posted by D.PASSMORE
Do you have any pictures of this set up? Sounds interesting.
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Pretty easy to do. I have all my GM vehicles set up that way.
You need to pull all the wires off your starter.
-You will have a heavy battery cable and a 10ga wire or two on the same heavy stud. Those will all still stay together on the new setup.
-You will also have a lighter gauge wire going to the back of the solenoid on the starter.
Mount the Ford solenoid somewhere convenient.
All of the wires that were on the heavy stud on the starter will go to one of the heavy lugs on the solenoid. The lighter gauge wire goes to the "S" terminal on the solenoid. You need to add one more heavy wire from the other heavy stud on the solenoid to the heavy stud on the starter. Final piece is make a 10ga jumper to go from the heavy stud on the starter to the smaller stud where the lighter gauge wire was.
This does a few things -
- You no longer have electrically energized wires running to the starter all the time.
- You are no longer pushing 10-15 amps through your ignition switch to engage the starter. The Ford uses less than 3A.
- You get more power to the solenoid on the starter because you are not running it through 15 feet of wire and your ignition switch.