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If the battery is good you will need to follow flow. Test light is the easiest to use. First hook light to ground and touch pos terminal,lights good next touch pos battery cable end, lights good. Next follow pos cable to starter pos terminal,lights good. Next hook test light to bat pos teminal,touch neg terminal,lights good. Then touch engine block, lights good ground. Next move test light clamp back to ground/neg side and touch alt pos terminal,lights good.if all that tests good, if all good move inside and check for power at ign switch pos term if at any time you dont find power you have wiring issue that needs to be addressed. Let me know what you find. Russ
your starter solenoid is located on your starter you have the main body of the starter that bolts up to the transmission but the solenoid is the little thing on the starter that has a ground that goes to starter case and your starter wires hook up to the pos. and neg. terminailes the thing your wires hook to in a nut shell is your starter solenoid
Confirm power is availible at starter main power supply, step one , using mutl meter check for 12 volts at battery positive terminal , 2, check main voltage supply lead to starter from battery pos post , 12 volts present? yer check voltage supply lead from battery pos post to altenater , then to starter , 12 volts present, yes , check small wire to starter at starter for switched 12 volts present yes change stater after confirming suitable ground, no, trouble shoot ignition / starter switch in colume
your tacho should have 4 wires 1 black =ground 2 green=ignition 3 white/black =ignition coil contact breaker side 4 red=illumination make sur your tacho is for the correct system ie. pos or neg ground
Sorry iam a thick brit having problems with your spelling which as we all know we cannot spell in the UK or pronounce aluminium or tomatoes so the man to ask is emmisionwiz as hes a ford dealer fitter with enough years under his belt to know exactly what you need to know ,so try a direct question ,but for this year with a seperate regulator why not try a alternator off a later model with a built in regulator ,as for the starter motor then a wire from the contact switch on the back of the key switch that has power when the key is turned to the start position and this wire goes to the small terminal on the starter motor .I do not the facility of a fancy pen thing attached to my computer that i can draw a quick pic for you .
I would double check all battery connections both pos and neg. If you are consistently able to get it start by tapping on the starter it is likely stuck / dirty brushes. I would replace the starter. If the car gives one good click when you try to start that is the starter solenoid allowing power to the starter but it sounds like your starter may be pooched.
Make sure you return your old unit to the parts store for your core credit.
If the positive cable is on the wrong side, yes no power. The positive must be on the up side of the solenoid along with the other wires (except your start wire which goes on the small post). The cable going to the starter hooks on the down side. The ground goes to a ground (usually to the motor).
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the negative wire should be attached under the head of a mounting bolt for the starter
the circuit is that the power goes into the positive terminal ( big terminal) through the solenoid when activated out the second big terminal through the fields and armature to ground
the power to activate the solenoid is either from a power wire from the ignition switch to a small terminal on the solenoid through the windings to ground that activates the solenoid and closes a set of contacts in the solenoid to allow the power across the 2 big terminals
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