I'm trying to bench test a 2.5l and need some help with wiring.

[Aaronhl]

Just going by memory on older stuff, but the post on the starter body is hot, and goes to the large post on the start solenoid, the positive battery cable goes to the other large post on start solenoid The battery ground would be hooked to a mounting bolt on the starter. The yellow with red or orange stripe wire, is what activates the solenoid, it also runs through the neutral safety up at the shifter. Probably goes to the ignition switch also. This is the wire that you jump power to at the start solenoid to bypass the ignition and neutral safety.

thanks for the help kinda embarrassed to say I changed the battery and it turned over 11.4v was not enough it needed 12.4 !! All the wires hooked up the way they need to be just as your describing, there are technically two solenoids seems like a duplicate to me, after all helped me learn a little about this one…different than the older v6s I have