Originally Posted by
f5fordgirl
If it starts, and then dies when you let go of the key, the switch is bad. It starts cause its getting the full 12 volts from the selonid, when you turn loose of the key, the switch isn't supplying juice to keep it running.
Not necessarily true. When the key returns to the on position the power goes through the resister before the coil. So it could be either or anything between.