Pinto Car Club of America

what wires go onto the starter relay? on my car sombody took off the relay and left it sitting there and now i dont know what wires go where does anybody have a pic or anything to tell me wich wires go to what side of the relay when i turn the key on no lights come on on the dash by the way this is a 1979 2.3

please help
lostandfound

If you are not comfortable with attemting this on your own, don't.

Most of the wires will only go in one place to hook-up.

I don't have my car with me at the moment, nor do I have my book, and this is off the top of my head.

A good shop manual should help, but if you don't have one (yet), the big terminals (wires with eyelets) can interchange on the big posts on the relay, one big wire to the battery, one to the starter. There should be at least one more wire, smaller, but with a big eye on the end. That one (or both), should bolt with the battery eye on the relay. There will be at least one small wire, hook it up to the small terminal. If there are two small terminals, and only one small wire, hook it to the terminal that does not have 12volts when the battery line is connected. If there are two small wires and two small terminals, I think the one that has 12 volts with the key on 'start' goes to the terminal with no voltage.

I hope this helps,

Bill