Final Stages: 2 Urgent Questions

[Doug E]

OK, it is 1am here and I'm just now coming in from the garage so please bear with me ...

In putting my engine back together I realize there are 2 key digital pictures I forgot to take:

1) the wires connected to the starter
2) the spring on the accelerator linkage

Can somebody please verify which wires go to which post on the starter (mine has 3: large red, yellow and yellow/blue).

Can somebody please post a picture or describe where the other end of the spring on the accelerator linkage is connected under the CIS? I know one end goes to the plate/linkage but I can't see where the other end goes.

Car is an '81 3.0l SC.

I'm going to search the archives tomorrow but I just don't have the energy to do so now.

TIA.

[smestas]

Doug,

Here is a pic of my throtle linkage and spring. I'm not sure if its the same since my car is a '78SC.

[cstreit]

I don't have a picture, but you should have markings on the posts...

1. Red goes to b+
2. Blue goes to d+

Someone else should post the yellow, I can't remember just now...

[Wayne 962]

I'm 99% sure there's a pic of the starter with cables attached in the engine drop chapter of 101 projects. Also probably in the engine drop article on this site...

-Wayne

[ohecht]

I think my starter wires have two different diameter wire lugs and bolts, so they are hard to put on backwards.

Olivier

[Doug E]

Thanks for the help and suggestions.

I'll check on the starter pics but here's the spring I was referring to:





BTW, this picture is from the disassembly and not after all my hard work

I've got a clearer head now so I'm going out to take another look ...

[Jim Sims]

For that last spring look for an anchorage eye (hole) on a tab on one of the intake runners. Cheers, Jim

[ohecht]

My 82 does not have that spring at all. There is the hole on the linkage, but nothing on the intake runners nearby.

Do all engines have it, and is it critical? I have never noticed any problems with only the spring on the TB itself.

Does anyone have a picture of where the other end connects?

Olivier