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Gear-Reduction Starter

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Folks,

The starter on my 1959 3000 has finally decided to call it quits. I may rebuild it, but in the immediate time frame, I am installing a gear reduction starter.

I assume the starter does not care if the car is positive or negative ground, since there is only a single post for the battery connection. (Mine car is positive ground.)

The existing starter solenoid has a brown wire that connects to one post on the solenoid and goes to the voltage regulator.

The gear-reduction starter I bought (a Moss unit) only has one electrical post for the battery connection. Do I install the brown on this post as well?

Thanks for your help.
Ron
 
If your starter of choice uses permanent magnets instead of conventional field coils, it will reverse direction if it is normally used on a negative ground. If you have field windings it doesn't make a difference. Gear reduction starters come both ways so it depends on what you are using. Perhaps a good time to convert to negative ground?
 
Thanks, Jon.

The starter I got is a WOSP LMS005 unit, or according to the WOSP website, a Denso OSGR*r, and has polarity for both positive ground and negative ground.

Also, I still need to know what to do with the brown wire to the voltage regulator.
 
Thanks, Michael.
That pretty much explained everything.

It looks getting the original solenoid out of the loop is the simple approach.
Connect both the brown wire and the battery cable to the single post on the new gear reduction starter.

I assume I could use the old solenoid as a splice point, with the cable from the battery and the cable to the new gear reduction starter connected to the battery post of the old solenoid, and nothing else connected to the old solenoid.

Ron
 
Ron--

Yes, your choice but why not take the opportunity to save a little space and lose one more piece of old gear in the process?
 
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