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Dead truck
1989 F250. DuraSpark 2 ignition.
Today I went to start my truck, and it did, but my starter was still spinning. Took key out, and was still spinning. Popped the hood quickly and disconnected battery. Replaced starter solenoid and now I have no power to anything in the truck. My choke for carb has voltage, battery has 12.6 volts. Put jumper cables on and same thing. No headlights, radio, nothin. What am I missing? all wires went back together as they came off. Checked fuse box, and all is good there I think, no blown fuses. When I put a volt meter on both solenoid stubs I measure a difference in potential equivalent to source voltage from battery. Please help
Today I went to start my truck, and it did, but my starter was still spinning. Took key out, and was still spinning. Popped the hood quickly and disconnected battery. Replaced starter solenoid and now I have no power to anything in the truck. My choke for carb has voltage, battery has 12.6 volts. Put jumper cables on and same thing. No headlights, radio, nothin. What am I missing? all wires went back together as they came off. Checked fuse box, and all is good there I think, no blown fuses. When I put a volt meter on both solenoid stubs I measure a difference in potential equivalent to source voltage from battery. Please help
Cargo Master
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What engine do you have ?
Post a photo of your distributor....
You put all the wires back on the same side of your new solenoid ?
Measure voltage from each solenoid stud to ground, post your results.
Post a photo of your distributor....
You put all the wires back on the same side of your new solenoid ?
Measure voltage from each solenoid stud to ground, post your results.
Tuned
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+1 to that.
Follow the positive battery cable from the battery terminal to the starter solenoid. If your F250 is wired anything like my dad's F150, there should be a bunch of ring terminals on the same big post of the relay as the battery cable, and the other big post should have just the one cable going down to the starter. If you put the rings on the other terminal (or reversed the battery and starter leads), then none of the things fed by those ring terminals will have power.
(Sorry if this posts multiple times, I keep getting a "you have logged in since the window loaded" message when I try to post.)
Follow the positive battery cable from the battery terminal to the starter solenoid. If your F250 is wired anything like my dad's F150, there should be a bunch of ring terminals on the same big post of the relay as the battery cable, and the other big post should have just the one cable going down to the starter. If you put the rings on the other terminal (or reversed the battery and starter leads), then none of the things fed by those ring terminals will have power.
(Sorry if this posts multiple times, I keep getting a "you have logged in since the window loaded" message when I try to post.)
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