HELP PLEASE BATTERY CABLE WIRING TO 1989 MERCURY 70HP

appleo

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anybody with a photo or daigram? Where to connect posotive battery cable? Negative Cable?
 

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The red positive cable goes to the big terminal on the solenoid opposite the starter cable. The black negative goes to the block of the motor
 

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The red positive cable goes to the big terminal on the solenoid opposite the starter cable. The black negative goes to the block of the motor
That 3/8" stud terminal is the junction point for 12v distribution and the place where the regulated alternator output sends power back to charge the battery. So there will be the large battery red wire and several other red wires of smaller but varying diameters.
 

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See pics. Are there 3 solenoids? Seems crazy Appears a new stator was added too.
 

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See pics. Are there 3 solenoids? Seems crazy Appears a new stator was added too.

The lower solenoid, right terminal seems to be the one with the 12v distribution which is where the battery red wire should go. Once you do that, go to your ignition key and turn it to START while either you measure it, listen, or feel for a vibration when it clicks ON. If that happens, the lower solenoid is your starting solenoid and you need to add suitably sized wire, at least a #4 AWG, from the left stud of this solenoid to your starter voltage input stud. It should be protruding from the side of the starter and not connected to one of the straps shown in your picture. If you'd give us another picture that shows the whole starter I can identify it for you if in doubt. I can't see those two wires attached to the straps. Going to guess that both are black and one goes to the block and the other back to battery neg. terminal. Those are your ground wires. You need a power wire too as mentioned above.

The other two solenoids are your trim relays and one is for up and the other down. Rule of thumb is blue sky for up and green grass for down when looking for wire color codes. You have power routed to these but no outputs....output terminals are empty. If you have no power trim on your engine then this explains why there is no output.
 
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appleo

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thanks. I have it now. checked it all over ..and wired it up ....missing spark in cyl 3. swapped some cdi wires. and it is the cdi for sure. off to ebay to find one
 
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