High Torque Starter

[bugi]

Does anyone have experience wiring a high torque starter on a BugEye?
I'm not sure if the mechanical starter switch can still be used or if a solenoid and push button starter must be installed.
Any advice is appreciated since I have an aversion to expensive smoke.

Bugi.

 

[nomad]

Don't they have solenoid [bendix] on top of them?

You could use the pull switch to activate the solenoid just fine if you want to keep it.

Kurt.

 

[Gerard]

They can be installed with the factory electrical solenoids or the pull starters. I've installed them a dozen times or more in either case.

 

[bugi]

They can be installed with the factory electrical solenoids or the pull starters. I've installed them a dozen times or more in either case.

I would like to retain the pull starter. Where does what wire go.

Thanx

 

[Gerard]

I would like to retain the pull starter. Where does what wire go.

Thanx

Well, I don't know which one you have, but normally, you just put a jumper from the big lug to the small one.

 

[64rocksprite]

The pull starter physically connects the circuit at the solenoid..allowing battery cable to connect to the starter. On a high torque, you need to make a small jumper wire on the starter so when you activate the pull cable, it activates the starter.
I have this copied from a vendor's website..can't remember the source unfortunately:

The nippondenso has two electrical terminals on it. This starter may be used in both positive and negative ground cars so, I will refer to the terminals as the "big" terminal and the "little" terminal so as not to confuse you. The big terminal has the nut on it while the little terminal(solenoid terminal) has a shielded black cover over a small male (spade)push terminal. With a 4 inch piece of wire(14 or 16 guage will do) connect these two terminals together. To do this you will need to buy a female connector to crimp on one end of the wire(goes to the small termininal) and a ring connector for the large terminal.

See first couple pictures of this website:
https://www.teglerizer.com/triumphstuff/73gt6br_tropperstarter.htm
It's for a Triumph, but the starter is the same..the triumph appears to need more measurements and spacers..I did not use any spacers, just needed a bit of clearance on pass footwell corner.

 

[64rocksprite]

Some pics of my install
This is just the mechanical install..I hadn't wired it up at this point.

 

[bugi]

Thanks folks. Hopefully,this will be a smoke free installation.

Bugi.