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Subject:Re: Remote Starter Switch Wire-up for '88GL
From:David Beierl
Date:Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:45:30 -0400

At 12:02 PM 6/22/2011, John Rodgers wrote:
>One lead would go to the battery post on the starter, and the other lead
>would attach to either one of the two male connectors on the back of the
>solenoid. Is that correct??

I just have a Radio Shack crocodile-clip lead with one end on the
starter connector as above and the other dangling from a vacuum hose
near the alternator.  The boot covers the exposed end of the clip -
to start I just lift the clip up and press it onto the alternator B+
stud.  Low mass, low price, always available, no button to
accidentally press.  And another five or six clip leads in the
package.  NB - they have three sizes of clip leads, all useful and
reasonably well made, in packs of several.  The crocodile clip kind
is the largest one.

Yours,
David