Date:         Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:24:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Remote Starter Switch Wire-up for '88GL
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Just a suggestion.   PLEASE BE CAREFULL!!!    Make darn sure you know
exactly what
you're doing electrically when you go to hook up and use this remote
starter.   And follow
all the suggested warnings regarding things hanging down e.g. hair, neck
chains, bandanas
transmission in neutral or park, brake on etc.   Because once the motor
starts turning on it's own,
you're a long ways away from turning it off again with close to 2,000 lbs.
of metal just aching to
run your ass over or a belt wanted to tug you in for an extra close
shave....

Steven
91 Westy

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:45 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> At 12:02 PM 6/22/2011, John Rodgers wrote:
>
>> One lead would go to the battery post on the starter, and the other lead
>> would attach to either one of the two male connectors on the back of the
>> solenoid. Is that correct??
>>
>
> I just have a Radio Shack crocodile-clip lead with one end on the
> starter connector as above and the other dangling from a vacuum hose
> near the alternator.  The boot covers the exposed end of the clip -
> to start I just lift the clip up and press it onto the alternator B+
> stud.  Low mass, low price, always available, no button to
> accidentally press.  And another five or six clip leads in the
> package.  NB - they have three sizes of clip leads, all useful and
> reasonably well made, in packs of several.  The crocodile clip kind
> is the largest one.
>
> Yours,
> David
>