Electrical System Upgrade: Remote Starter Relay Installation

The clipped ends are still attached to the solenoid, yes? Can you ID them that way? I, you, we, anybody else reading this thread needs a more definitive means of distinguishing between them beyond the vague description provided thus far. Not being an A-hole. You gotta help me help you. Gimme more to go on please.
 
no problems at all with the response.

1 - no the clipped wires are not on the solenoid. I have three wires from that harness section: two 16-18 gauge, and one 10 gauge. Let me follow back up the wire harness and see if I can Identify any #s on the wires themselves.

2 - Back to basics: there is one large cable, got that one (goes to one post of the relay)

3 - I have completed the "jumper" from large post to "S" small post of solenoid.

4 - My question here is this: was there originally just one 16-18 gauge wire left, or were there two? That is my problem, I guess, and identifying them from the wire harness.

Thanks for the reply, it is appreciated.
 
Ok. The 10ga would go to the battery side of your new relay, not the starter side. That's easy. The other two wires are both valid and necessary. The question is which goes where. The clipping as you now know was kind of a big goof. If those wires still had the ring terminals on them, this would be a no-brainer. One of them is your sense wire that runs back to alternator terminal #2. The other runs up to a firewall BHC and then to the 'S' terminal of the IGN SW. This is what triggers the starter motor to engage when you turn the key. So if you can identify the sense wire, (easiest) put a ring terminal on it large enough to attach to the battery side of your relay. By elimination, the other wire will be your trigger. Put a small ring terminal on it and hook it to the relay 'S' terminal. The 'I' terminal will be left vacant. That's about the best I can do for you short of being there to ogle and fondle the wires myself. If you could find legible circuit numbers on either of the wires, that would be super too.
 
well....................
ok then, I will have to spend this weekend "playing" with the wires, trying to identify, follow, identify. I really do appreciate the response, and it helps a ton. As I mentioned, I have all of the other wires/harnesses in the engine compartment identified and labeled. Lights, side lights, heater, AC, coil, horn, marker lights, alt., etc. It's just this one last bunch, the starter. Stupid me for procrastinating so damn long. thank you, and will follow up when complete.
 
Sure. Circuit #7 is the volt sense wire and circuit #17 is the start control if you can find any remnant of the numbers on the insulation, which is doubtful, especially since the ends have been clipped. The numbers may not have been legible anyway after so much heat and grime exposure over the years. If you have the factory service manual with the wiring diagrams, you can easily identify which BHC terminal #17 is attached to. My manual is for the earlier models, so the BHC design and layout is a bit different than what you have. I would expect that 17 should also show voltage when the IGN is switched to START, while 7 shouldn't be energized at all with the engine stopped.
 
Well:

update: found one of the wires had a "CZ17" on it, yea! the 10 gauge has "14" on it.

.......................onward>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>:thumbsup:
 
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