wont start with msd hooked up???

[whitepony]

ok i bout an msd 6al a while back and just got around to installing in anyway i didnt get the easy hook up it looked easy enought the other way. and way i hook up the ground to my starter solniod and same with my pos. and i put the the orange on pos on my coil and black on ground then red to red/green and white to green/yellow (i think yellow)

but i get NOTHING wont start. as soon as i change it around back the way it was first try starts

any ideas??

[PKRWUD]

What do you mean you "hook the ground to your starter solenoid"?

[~The Jester~]

If you have the white wire grounded, it's NEVER gonna start. You can use the white wire as a theft deterent, if it's grounded NO SPARK. Simple.

[whitepony]

i took the bigger blck wire and grounded it to where the battery ground is on the solenoid. is that where i should have put it??

so if the white wire is on the green wire from the coil plug its grounded??
i'll check for spark.
thanks
mike

[go4it]

Hook the heavy black wire straight to the battery negative post. Sounds like you have the white wire hooked up right -- it goes to the dark green/yellow wire like you said.

[whitepony]

ok i'll try that with the ground
ya my white wire is good

thanks mike

[GhettoPop]

heavy black = (-) batt post
heavy red = (+) batt post
mag pickup = not used
orange = (+) side of coil
black = (-)side of coil
red = red and light green (disconnected from coil)
white = dark green and yellow (disconnected from coil)

[PKRWUD]

Originally posted by whitepony
i took the bigger blck wire and grounded it to where the battery ground is on the solenoid. is that where i should have put it??

If you follow the wire routing listed above, you should be fine, but your reply here is what's concerning me. There is no negative battery terminal on the solenoid. One side goes to the positive battery cable, and the other goes to the starter. Am I not understanding you correctly?

[whitepony]

right beside the pos. wire to my battery on the soleniod is where the ground for my battery is and i just put the ground for the msd there with it??
i hope that is better for ya

thanks
mike