Benzine
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| posted on 6/1/05 at 11:10 AM |
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Pinto wiring help
I'm using the Vicky Green pinto loom and I'm a bit stuck on the starter motor/solanoid/dizzy. Basically i don't know which wires go
to which terminals as the wiring diagram is disconcertingly vague which isn't a great help to a n00b like me  I would like to know where the
+ve battery lead goes, the -ve batter lead and the thick brown wire.
Also a strange adapter is on the loom which won't fit it any way to the starter which it says it should, could this be for a later ignition
system? (i'm using the simple motorcraft amplifier)
And the dizzy has 3 parts to connect to yet nothing on the loom matches this, how can i mate them together? Take of the connector and match the wires
up straight?
Here's a picture of the solanoid (sp?) and dizzy connection (blurred)
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James
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| posted on 6/1/05 at 03:24 PM |
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Benzine,
Can't help you with the starter but I've messed with the dizzy a bit.
Which carbs are you using? You realise that that dizzy has no vacuum advance? That's the dizzy from a EFI or stepper motor carb Sierra I
believe.
If you want vacuum advance then you need a 2 pin dizzy from a 1.6 or 2.0 Sierra with carbs.
HTH,
James
[Edited on 6/1/05 by James]
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Benzine
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| posted on 6/1/05 at 10:25 PM |
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Hi James, I'm using twin 45's. I had thought about the dizzy being a problem but i don't know the difference between non vac and
vac. The only pintos at the scrappies have 3 pin also but in a different arrangement (more round that straight line)
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Jimbo
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| posted on 17/1/05 at 03:32 PM |
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With the starter, there are 2 large terminals, one of the terminals has a wire connected to it that goes into the body of the starter motor, you
connect the main power lead to the other one.
When you activate the key, a feed is sent down the small wire, this activates an electric magnet inside the solenode, which then jumps the 2 large
terminals inside, putting power into the starter to spin it, it also at the same time throws out the small gear to mesh with your flywheel starter
ring. When you release the key from "start" position, the electro magnet springs off contact with the large terminals, and disengages the
gear.
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