[MCOULTER]

Originally Posted by Maurice Johnson

MCOULTER, Do you know the model # of your old Delco starter. If it only had the heavy battery cable attached, it must have been one of the models which when fed current, advanced the armature to engage the ring gear, and then energized the armature to spin the engine. If your new starter has a tab marked ignition, it will need to be energized, to pull in the bendix to the ringgear, before passing current thru the short heavy strap between the starter solenoid and the starter winding, to spin the engine. This tab on the starter solenoid would get its current from the starter switch (black/yellow wire). I am a marine electrician here in Bermuda, and we use slave solenoids all the time for heavy draw marine diesel starters (8-900 amps). I have to admit, I find it strange to see slave solenoids on the Cobras to spin relativey small starters. I would welcome education on this last point from a more experienced member.

Maurice, I do not have the model # of the ACD starter. But it did operate they way you describe. I thought I was energizing the ignition tab by pigtailing it to the battery post of the starter as the instructions noted. Thanks for the insight though.