The spade terminal on the old one is the one from the starter contact
on the ignition switch, this is the one you need to connect to the small
terminal on the new starter.
The other small terminal on your loom goes to one side of a resistance
wire between the ignition switch (the main ignition circuit not the
starter circuit) and the ignition coil.
On the OHV engine the ignition coil is run via a resistance wire
normally and this is shorted out by the contact in the starter motor
when the starter is turning to boost power to the coil.
You can't use this setup on your new starter so you need to change the
coil to a CVH one (the OHV will overheat) and remove the resistance wire.
The resistance wire is normally pluged into the main loom via a couple
of bullet type connectors near the coil.
Jim
On 21/08/2010 19:31, jin wrote:
Hi all.
so ive got the xr2 engine in and bolted up, ive started to unravel the
wiring I pulled out the way to clean and repaint the chassis and have
started to try to put it in the right places.
thinking the original OHV starter was probably a bad idea I went down
the scrappy today and plucked one from a k reg mk3 with a CVH in it.
its bolted up ok and looking at the sizes of things the OHV starter is
too long to fit as it would foul my new super sexy 4 branch manifold.
not paying much attention I bolted it on without looking at the
connections and now im puzzled by the terminals, both have 3 terminals
but the OHV has a spade and the CVH doesn't, to demonstrate here's a
pic
OHV
[img]http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/DSC00162.jpg[/img]
CVH (bolted to car)
[img]http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/DSC00161.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/DSC00159.jpg[/img]
anyone got any ideas which wires go where, I know the bigger of the 3
go to the main threaded lug but on my wiring on the car I also have 1
spade and 1 funny push on rubber coated connection similar to the type
that goes to the coil .
next on the agenda it the distributor, the old OHV had just 1 wire
hooked in somewhere, something to do with the points I think, but it
sort of fell off as I touched it, the new dizzy has 3 connections like
so
[img]http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/DSC00163.jpg[/img]
so question here is what do I have to wire here? I imagine its a whole
new loom as such but if somebody know just how to connect what to
where that would be a great help.
also on the subject of the coil and switching from points to
electronic , what needs to be done here? I understand I will have to
swap the coil for a higher output type which is fair enough but what
about the ballast resistor? which I assume is the funny grey wire
about a foot long with 2 rubber connections at either end? anyone got
any suggestions here?
your help will really be appreciated and im hoping to get the car
running soon
p.s. when I disconnected the gearbox selector I marked the shaft to
clamp position, I bolted it up today using the marks as reference and
hey presto, it all works.
im happy with that :D
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