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Brushman, from your limited info and having no idea what starter or solenoid you have, I gotta offer some basic broad generic tips which may or not help????? ?? 1) A solenoid ought to have like 2 big posts, one leads to the starter post/stud (often with a flat strap) while the other is where the big battery cable attaches. The big hot ungrounded battery cable CAN NOT attach to the same place where a strap etc connects to the starter, otherwise she would always be cranking. 2) A typical solenoid has one or two small lil wire terminals. One is the solenoid activation terminal (S) which wires to the starter switch such as a push to start or the spring start position on some key type switches. What it does is to activate and pull in the solenoid when the button etc is depressed and that sends battery voltage to that terminal. The other may?? be an I terminal which is hot with voltage ONLY when the solenoid is activated and they are used to by pass an ignition ballast resistor on some gas engines that uses a ballast resistor. 3) How to tell which lil terminal to wire the starter push button or the start spring position on a key type switch:::::::: With the big hot ungrounded battery cable attached to the solenoid as noted above and the battery hooked up and the starter mounted n grounded etc., jump a hot battery voltage wire (such as over from the big battery cable post) etc to one of the solenoids lil terminals by momentarily bumping against/scratching/touching to the solenoid terminal and if its the correct S terminal it will cause the solenoid to latch in and the engine to crank. If the wrong lil terminal (the I one) it wont do nuttin. 4) The start wire from the dash to the solenoids lil S activation terminal should be one down from a push to start or key switch which becomes hot when depressed or in the spring start position. Clear as mud????/ No warranty express or implied John T in Indiana
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