New Starter

[Oliverguy-NE Ohio]

I got a new starter for my Oliver and it's got a different wire hookup instead of just one big cable apparently you have to do something else with like a smaller ground wire or something. does anybody have a diagram or just explain what wire goes to that little nut on the left side of it? pictures for reference

 

[used red MN]

here's a video of it
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Very nice, it is good to see young folks interested and working on old tractors and machines. I think I caught your age in one of your other posts but had forgotten. Glad I could help, although it was a bit of an unorthodox and gutsy approach on my part not knowing exactly how the internal wiring of the solenoid was configured.

 

[rrlund]

I did get this one working. it works fine I've started it multiple times with it now and it starts at just fine. I think I will just keep this one because it has a warranty and it's working fine. I could get my old one rebuilt but it would be almost the same price as this new one was. the tractor starts the second I press the button so it's not like I have the starter running that long anyway. all I had to do was take a 12 gauge jumper wire from the s terminal on the solenoid and put it on the same terminal that my main cable goes to on the starter button.

Ya, that's the clean way to do it. I had to put the one off my 1600 on my 77 a few months ago to get cattle fed. I was in a hurry and just hooked to the bottom post.

 

[used red MN]

I was in a hurry and just hooked to the bottom post.

rr The drive didn’t rely on the mechanical action from the solenoid to move it into the flywheel? I would have thought it would have just spun the armature like a motor with no engagement.

 

[rrlund]

rr The drive didn’t rely on the mechanical action from the solenoid to move it into the flywheel? I would have thought it would have just spun the armature like a motor with no engagement.

The only thing you're doing by putting power to the "S" terminal is to engage the plunger disc that touches the back side of both studs at the same time. The Bendix is the same on both types of starter.

 

[used red MN]

The only thing you're doing by putting power to the "S" terminal is to engage the plunger disc that touches the back side of both studs at the same time. The Bendix is the same on both types of starter.

Got it, thanks!