HEI and Starter wiring?
Okay, on the wire harness in the engine compartment, the one that is used for ignition, starter, etc....my question is how do you wire HEI distributor and starter, etc....??? I know the short green one is for temp switch.
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There should be a green wire coming from the firewall wire harness that you need to put a spaid terminal on to the HEI on the (BAT) side. Its a switched power source from the fuse block. The other terminal is simply for a tach. There should be a couple different green wires. Use a test light to determine which one is a switched power source, the temp one wont have any power. The starter is a heavy gauge red wire with a larger eyelit terminal on it that you shouldnt have to mess with. theres also a ground. As far as your one wire alternator goes you need to run one wire from the alternator to the battery to maintain the charge. and the other wire comes from the firewall and I believe is purple
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Hope this helps.
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I just looked at the harness, and the heavy wire seems to be the purple one....???
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The diagram is correct.
Run a new 12ga wire from the ignition unfused terminal on the fuse block to the BAT terminal on the HEI (red wire above). Then, there is a solid purple wire to your starter from the fuse box...keep this wire and the heavy + lead from the battery attached to the starter, and disconnect the yellow (it ties to a purple/orange resistance wire as well) from the starter and discard (not shown on diagram) Follow the diagram and you are all set...only two wires and you'll be up and running. |
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here is a more complete wiring.
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Sorry, that didn't work well.
Try this Spike:smoke: |
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when you say disconnect the yellow, that it ties to a purple/orange resistance wire from the starter and discard..??? can you explain alittle more for this wiring dummy???? |
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Sure, in stock form, there are two wires from the fuse box that go to the starter. a solid purple wire, and a purple/orange wire. The purple/orange wire T's with a yellow wire before it hits the starter. that yellow wire goes to the coil for the old points distributor system. With HEI, there is no coil, so the yellow and purple/orange wires are not needed any more...you can just cut it off at the fuse panel and toss it. the reason for doing this is the puple/orange wire is a resistance wire, and will get super hot and melt if left connected with no coil.
Now, having all that said, the truck is 40 years old and has probably already been butchered a bit in the wiring department, so your wires may look different....as long as your finished product looks exactly like the diagram above you'll be set: New 12ga to HEI from ignition unfused in fuse panel (red) Existing 12ga to Starter from fuse panel(solid purple) Existing 6ga positive battery cable to Starter from battery (Thick Red or Black) |
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i'm doing the same upgrade, do i need to run the wire from inside the truck? i ran a wire for the electric choke for the carb from inside fuse box. not sure if there is another "keyed" terminal available inside. which one can i splice into? or should i use the only available terminal (that i used for the electric choke) only for the hei? and splice into something for the choke?
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yeah, fuse block and fuse panel are the same thing. on the fuse panel, there are two spade terminals marked "ign. unfused" use one of those for your new red (or whatever color you like) wire. I have mine snaked through one of the firewall grommets near the steering shaft from inside the cab to the engine bay. it's the top light blue wire in the pic below(the bottom blue one is for my electric choke and tach):
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Thank you! :chevy: |
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Exactly what i was looking for - thanks for the pics and detail, 05 crewcab.
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Hey, no problem. Good Luck!
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I thought my previsou question would show the wire diagram :(
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I'll check the size for you. Spike:smoke: |
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The HEI feed wire can also be run from the firewall connector if you remove the orange/blue resistor wire and replace it with a 12 gauge red wire. It runs from the key switch ignition terminal to the firewall block. You can't just hook up the orange/blue wire to the HEI bat terminal because the HEI needs a full 12 volts to fire properly. You guys can find out all this stuff if you hang out in the electrical forum. |
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Thanks Guys I know about changing out the wire for the Hei an have done that an I have the fuse inline on the batter wire , showing a grey wire , but not sure of the two that come from the battery on the top of the diagram, just needed to know what wire to get an what size fuse to put in the other !
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This is a great thread and has helped me a bunch. Question, on my starter (Delco starter made for 57 Corvettes, go figure?) the wiring was as follows..
Thick black cable from the + battery post. 12 g ? purple wire that runs into the firewall right by the steering wheel and then a red wire, not sure the size but a bit smaller than the purple wire, that is connected to the same terminal, 's'' on the starter as the purple wire and is connected to the positive post on the electric choke of my Edelbrock carb. I haven't read anything about a wire running from the starter to the carb, so I wonder if this is 'normal'? I was having issues with hot starts so I added a heat shield to the carb, and I was having issues with 'no start' when hot so I removed the headers, added some header wrap the the end portion by the starter and a heat shield to the starter. Since it was starting before perhaps I should just hope that my 'fixes' for the hot start and no start will work and not worry too much about the wiring..although it does bother me when I find wires and connectors that go no where..perhaps I should chase these down and remove? thanks! |
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Your mods for the starter may help or you may need to install a remote starter solenoid. If you search for remote starter solenoid in the search box at the top of the page, You will get enough threads to keep you busy for a week. If you get no joy then post over in the electrical forum and detail your problem and you'll get lots of help. VV |
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