Hello:

Would someone have a drawind of the electrical connections of the starter on
a Perkins diesel engine?

I am realy lost... too many wires and^It seems a little complexe...

Thanks.

Chris

Isnt it just 3-4 wires?, 1-2 big ones for the starter engine, on 2 small
ones for the electromagnetic switch? If you short circut the thick red wire
to the starter engine, to + on the electromagnetic swith with a screwdriver
you will see if it work. Anybody correct me if I am wrong. PS dont do that
if you are not shure what you are doing there will be sparks.

There is a lot of wires from the egnition on the instrument panel though.
Not all go to the starter.

"Christian Dehaene" skrev i melding
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Hello:

Would someone have a drawind of the electrical connections of the starter
on
a Perkins diesel engine?

I am realy lost... too many wires and^It seems a little complexe...

Thanks.

Chris

Christian Dehaene wrote in message
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Hello:

Would someone have a drawind of the electrical connections of
the starter on
a Perkins diesel engine?

I am realy lost... too many wires and^It seems a little
complexe...

Thanks.

Chris

You'll need a V/A tester.

I assume you're talking about the engine end of the problem.

Light weight black and red from starter switch (via loom) to
solenoid. Check for presence of voltage when you switch to
'start' (while the battery master switch is on!) and an absence
of voltage when you release the switch. Then connect to solenoid
(with heavy red lines to the motor disconnected) to check that
the solenoid closes and opens as the switch is moved to start and
run.

Connect heavy weight red wire from battery master switch to
solenoid.

Heavy red wire connecting solenoid output to starter motor.

On some installations there's no black line to the solenoid
(rare), and on yet others there's a heavy weight black return
line to the battery earth from a post on the body of the starter
motor.

If you're talking about the switch end of the problem it takes
more time, and you'll need to start out by tracing which posts on
the switch correspond to the various functions - earth, run,
start, heat. But we'll leave that for the moment . .

JimB
Yacht RAPAZ, sadly for sail, to pay for that lovely Greek house
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Hi Chris,

take a look at the following URL
http://www.boten.nl/motoren/
There are some manuals of perkins diesel engines, the second of the List
contents a wiring diagram. Maybe 12VHandbook on the same site will help you
to understand the wiring.

Electrical connections of a diesel engineare very easy to understand:
There are heating elements inside the diesel engine. They are connected
direct to the battrey via a relais, witch is operated by central switch.
Starting motor is conncted direct to the battery via a bis relais or
selenoid unit. This unit is operated by central switch too. So there should
be two big wires from main battery to heating relais and starting motor. Two
small wires will lead from the central switch to the heating relais and to
the starter. If you connect the first wire with 12Vplus, heating of diesel
engine should operate. If you connect the second wire to 12Vplus, starter
should start running.

regards from Germany

Juergen



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Hello:

Would someone have a drawind of the electrical connections of the starter
on
a Perkins diesel engine?

I am realy lost... too many wires and^It seems a little complexe...

Thanks.

Chris