Starter trouble (extra wire?)

Chrisg13 · Post by **Chrisg13** » 04 Oct 2019, 14:43

My starter died on me and I changed it out. When I was done and put the negative battery connector on, it started to smoke so right away I knew something was wrong. So I look at the grounds that I know of and they look fine. So I re watch the robertdiy video and noticed that he only had 3 connectors for his starter and I have 4... I've been looking at pictures and I seem to have an extra connector? 3 big red wires and one small one and the green one Can anyone tell me what's going on here and what to do, thank you.

Post by **BEJinFbk** » 04 Oct 2019, 15:44

I have a funny feeling that one of those is a ground strap...

Post by **FireFox31** » 04 Oct 2019, 22:10

Here are some pictures of my 2000 V70 starter from when I last worked on it. You'll see two large red wires are on the outer post. I'm pretty sure that the inner post has no wire attached other than the little 2" strap to the body of the starter.

I know that there is no grounding wire from the car body to the starter. Instead, it grounds to the engine which is grounded to the body using flexible copper straps which corrode and fail, breaking the circuit and preventing the car from starting.

I can't tell from your pictures what color the wires are. Perhaps you can compare them to mine and see how they should match up.

Chrisg13 · Post by **Chrisg13** » 04 Oct 2019, 22:23

FireFox31 wrote: ↑04 Oct 2019, 22:10 Here are some pictures of my 2000 V70 starter from when I last worked on it. You'll see two large red wires are on the outer post. I'm pretty sure that the inner post has no wire attached other than the little 2" strap to the body of the starter.

I know that there is no grounding wire from the car body to the starter. Instead, it grounds to the engine which is grounded to the body using flexible copper straps which corrode and fail, breaking the circuit and preventing the car from starting.

I can't tell from your pictures what color the wires are. Perhaps you can compare them to mine and see how they should match up.

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Thanks for confirming my suspicion that there are only supposed to be 3 wires. I just have to figure out where the other one belongs. Because the original starter did have a wire connected to the rear post. The weird wire is a thick red wire that looks likes it's coming from the battery.

Post by **abscate** » 05 Oct 2019, 03:36

You will have to trace it to be sure and that would be prudent. All that current is infused so faults will result in welding