starter solenoid problem

[Lin]

Hi folks,
Well I have made it to Oregon from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware without a problem. Now I have a pesky one. It seems that the starter solenoid post is loose and I am only sporadically making contact to start the car. I have had to push start it a few times which while not a big problem is a bit of a pain.

Question:
I have a gear reduction starter and I seem to recall that you can bypass the original solenoid with these starters, but I have no directions. Can I just hook the cable from the battery directly to the positive post on the starter? If so, anything else I need to do? How about that little jumper wire? I assume that if one does this, then just turning the ignition key will turn the starter. Does the gear reduction starter have a solenoid built in to it to engage the starter to the flywheel?

Thanks for your help. I am hoping that I can do this until I can get a new solenoid along the way as I have another two weeks until I am back in Virginia.

Lin

 

[Keoke]

Hi Lin I do not know about that starter. However it must have two terminals to work like you suggest. One connects Battery Hot to the starter and a second small one which connects to the R/W from the solenoid. However, Bill Bolten is there in ORE as well as Big Wilson Look em up they can help .--Fwiw-Keoke


Hey Lin!! you can replace that solenoid with any old ford type from a local auto parts store.

 

[Michael Oritt]

"I have a gear reduction starter and I seem to recall that you can bypass the original solenoid with these starters, but I have no directions. Can I just hook the cable from the battery directly to the positive post on the starter? If so, anything else I need to do? How about that little jumper wire? I assume that if one does this, then just turning the ignition key will turn the starter. Does the gear reduction starter have a solenoid built in to it to engage the starter to the flywheel?
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Lin--

Yes, you can hook the battery directly to the starter or even easier simply use one stud of the solenoid to make the connction with the existing cables. Then if you hook the "little jumper wire" to the wire that energizes the original solenoid you will take it (the original defective solenoid) out of the circuit and you will be using the solenoid which is built into the gear starter. Actually you were always using it, but you energized IT through the original solenoid.

I have reductions starters and have discarded the original solenoid on all my cars--having both in tandem is kind of a "belt and suspender" situation where you need both to hold your pants up.

 

[Michael Oritt]

Lin--

Go here: https://ferraris.server273.com/solenoid.html

This is the page at the "British Starters" that tells how to to utilize the original solenoid with a reduction starter.

This is no doubt how you are currently set up and in order to get your Healey solenoid out of the equation you will need to disconnect the ring terminal end of the small wire from the big terminal on the reduction starter and hook it up via butt connectors and perhaps an additional length of light wire to the wire that runs to your original solenoid from the starter switch. Again, connect the battery cable and the starter cable together at either post of the original solenoid.