Alan and Dave:
You're right, I have the push button. The schematic I
was looking at (in the Rovers North catalog, that's
the last time I'm looking at that) had a solenoid for
the positive-grounded car. I'm going to just use my
old book that came with it from now on.
Anyway, I will look at the starter button itself. I
know there are two main wires going into it. Without
directly looking at it, since I'm at work right now, I
believe the negative battery cable connects to the
left side and the wire going to the starter is on the
right.
Alan: the brown wire. Is this the one that goes on the
negative clamp? I know that there is a smaller wire
there, along with the main wire, because we
electrical-taped one in. I will check to see where
this goes. It should be on the left side (if you're
looking at it from the engine compartment) of the push
button, correct?
-brian
--- "Alan J. Richer" <mrchurchill109@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > In the schematics I have, the negative cable
> (since my
> > rover is positive grounded) connects directly to
> the
> > solenoid, which in turn goes to the starter,
> voltage
> > regulater, fuse box, et al. Could the solenoid be
> the
> > problem? How can I check this? Also, does this
> mean
> > the solenoid is the first point of power and if
> this
> > is bad, then nothing else will work?
>
> No, the first point of contact is usually on the
> "hot" side
> of the solenoid. There's a wire you've not connected
> - it
> should go on the battery cable lug side of the
> solenoid.
>
> Dumb question - did you put the little brown wire on
> the
> wrong side of the solenoid? If you did, you'd get
> these
> exact symptoms - no juice to the car as the solenoid
> is
> open circuit unless energized (and you can't do that
> with
> no 12 volts).
>
> BTW - solenoid on a positive ground car? THought
> these all
> had the big pushbutton?
>
> ajr
>
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