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rick c
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Nov 11, 2015, 11:12 AM
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1993 chevy s10 4x4 4.3
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I have a 1993 chevy s10 4.3...starter engages soon as battery is hooked up...on the solenoid it has a large post and a small post.. but it has a big black wire and a small red wire and a small purple wire and only one small post. what would cause this ?
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kev2
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Nov 11, 2015, 11:43 AM
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Re: 1993 chevy s10 4x4 4.3
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have you changed anything? starter, cables/wires, installed remote starter?
this is a s10 pickup?
sounds like the ppl wire is getting 12v
small eyeletl red wire I do not remember-- is there 12v on it? what size is the connector on the red wire- is it large lug for the batt cable stud?
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rick c
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Nov 11, 2015, 12:24 PM
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The small red wire is 12v and the hole in connector is small like the ppl wire small red wire is combined with main hot from battery...yes its a new starter...
(This post was edited by rick c on Nov 11, 2015, 12:43 PM)
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Tom Greenleaf
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Nov 11, 2015, 12:43 PM
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What happened to cause that? Purple wire TMK is just supposed to get power to trigger the solenoid when starter requested. If 12v or close power all the time the starter is asked to run. No surprise now starter runs when you hook up battery.
Was on watch for this. Did you really toast the starter with a bad battery as you said you disconnected it sounds like you limped along with a lousy one for some time maybe? Oddly low power/amps+volt can melt up wiring as it isn't going to turn starter but before you get the machine gun flutter to prevent this problem it might not have and a reason for messing with the wires now wrong.
Guess at the sequence that could get you into this jam,
T
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rick c
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Nov 11, 2015, 12:56 PM
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no its a brand new starter and the battery wasn't hooked up it has a main hot black wire//a small red wire thats made into the main hot and a purple that goes to switch...i know this but starter only has one small post and there is 2 small wires red and ppl
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kev2
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Nov 11, 2015, 1:11 PM
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is the red wire original GM set up OR an added wire?
hook starter up without the red wire - let see what happens, what will not work,
something is missing- all of a sudden starter runs constant? were you fixing something- is there a remote starter? anything electrical added?
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