(HELP) new Starter spins as soon as battery is hooked up

[madprops2]

Hi I'm new here and I hope someone can help,

I just changed my starter on my 96 5.7 mercruiser and as soon as switch on the battery it starts to spin but it doesn't engage. I didn't think you could hook up the wires wrong but I guess I did. There were 3 wires going to one pole and one skinny wire going to a smaller pole. I didn't look at which order the 3 going to the same pole were cause I didn't think it would matter. Now as soon as I switch on the battery it spins but doesn't engage. I really hope some one here can help me out. the dealers parts guys are not in on Sundays. I was really hoping to take my fiancée to be out as part of an ongoing thing I'm doing before I propose..... PLEASE HELP

 

[Bt Doctur]

the upper most stud takes the battery cable, the red system power and the orange alt wire. the small lug closest to the engine gets the small yellow/red wire.
you connect nothing to the bottom lug. it already has the feed for the starter motor.

 

[stonyloam]

sounds like you hooked up the battery cable to the field post of the starter. Are there two large posts on the starter solenoid? Is there a wire going from the bottom post into the starter?

 

[madprops2]

the upper most stud takes the battery cable, the red system power and the orange alt wire. the small lug closest to the engine gets the small yellow/red wire.
you connect nothing to the bottom lug. it already has the feed for the starter motor.

Ok ill check to make sure that's how I did it tomorrow morning. Does it matter which one of the 3 wires goes on the stud first?

Thanks for the help.

 

[madprops2]

sounds like you hooked up the battery cable to the field post of the starter. Are there two large posts on the starter solenoid? Is there a wire going from the bottom post into the starter?

ill make sure I didn't do this tomorrow morning and post up an update

 

[Speakrdude]

Or your battery + cable twisted while tightening and is touching one of the other post.

 

[Eric 3.7LX Alpha 1]

It does not matter which wire goes first, once you tighten the nut down, they all touch together anyway, but personally I would put them in from largest to smallest in diameter.

 

[Eric 3.7LX Alpha 1]

It does not matter which wire goes first, once you tighten the nut down, they all touch together anyway, but personally I would put them in from largest to smallest in diameter. Just make sure no wires are touching any other posts they're not connected to.