This is a closeup of a picture I took last week when removing my wife's starter. It went dead- no noise or anything. Pounding on it revived it, but you had to do it each time. Had it rebuilt locally and it took about a week. I took this picture because I thought the wire shown was actually connected to what is the bottom terminal in the picture. I had to undo the bolt to get it off, but now I suspect that it is the wire I took off the small terminal and it had just gotten wedged under the terminal with the braid. I took this picture because I thought oh-oh, now there's three wires I need to keep track of. However I can only find two under there and the angle of the connector leads me to believe that it wasn't "electrically" connected to the terminal.

Plus I just got the starter back today and the nut on the bottom terminal is tightened and the other two are loose. That says to me that those are the two to use (they are marked "50" and "30").

I would just like somebody else to weigh in on this as I have to put this thing back in tomorrow morning.

Thanks-

Val

 

Not sure if you have an S or not but in my S, two sat on top of each other on the big one and there's one separate line for the smaller one

 

did you get it all figured out, I just replaced my starter the other day.

 

That's how mine was. S or not, it doesn't matter. I know because I installed an "S" starter (among other parts) in my R50.