My TR has an extrasolenoind

I'll have to take a look,

I'll have to take a look, but I think it's kinda in series with the starter solenoid. I wouldn't be surprised it it's a cheapie fix, do you remember my car also had an electric vacuum pump rigged up as the original cam-driven pump shaft had snapped. Right now the wire harness is laid out all over the floor as I haven't gotten around to routing it on top of the motor. So a pic might not help, but I will try and get one tomorrow. Worst case is the original solenoid is bad...how much can one of those be? It's a Bosch unit of course. I will get the part number and try importtec.com and see what it costs. I just ran out to look at it again. My notes aren't too good on what wires go where. Looking at the starter solenoid, there are 4 connection points. Two blade style male connectors at top and bottom, and two round nut & bolt style connectors right and left. Near the top connector is "15A" in small letters (upside down) and at the bottom connector is "50". Looking at the harness I see that a white w/blue stripe wire goes to the top connector. Running parallel with this wire is a orange w/yellow wire with a round connector and I don't know where this one goes. Darn...I am very disgusted that I messed this up....I normally have very good notes. The bottom connector has a glob of soldier that makes it look like something else may have gone there at one time. I hope all this drivel I'm spewing makes some kinda of sense. Any help is appreciated.

Here's another try at post

Here's another try at posting. Yep! It must have been something we were doing.

Here's the starter, don't know what wires go to what connectors.



Here's a couple of pics of the culprit. Wires coming off this solenoid went to the solenoid on the starter.



This is the progress I've made so far on the motor. Still miles to go, but it is getting there.

BTW: to answer the wires quest

BTW: to answer the wires questions....

to the large solenoid lug with nut, goes all the hot wires - battery, alternator hot wire, additional solenoid power feed. They should all have round connectors on them to slip on the lug and be tightened in place.

to the push on connectors on the solenoid - you could have 2 or 3 wires - one larger wire from the ignition switch to energize the solenoid from the switch for starting ( this may have been rerouted to the aftermarket solenoid in which case you should have 2 wires left), one smaller wire from the fuel pumps relay/s to energize the pumps & CS injectors for several seconds while cranking, and likely a third wire from the Aux. afermarket solenoid that adds additional voltage for troublesome stock solenoids.

If you have extra wires unaccounted for let us know and we'll continue resolving the issues.

Regards, JRV
ps: the engine is looking great...brand new actually...{ }