madaustinite

I can not find the starter enable relay on a 91 RS V8 for the life of me. I have a haynes manual and im beginning to think that its wrong with the wire colors. Ive looked online and i cant find a picture of it anywhere. Can someone please explain to me where the hell it is and take a picture of it. Thanks

Pocket

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Sure thing

Behind the drivers kick panel. Sometimes its behind the rubbery goo

Wire colors change depending on year and engine type. The in-car pics are of my 92 LO3. The separate is from my 91 GTA. Bypassing is simple. Either connect the two heavy wires, or ground the BLK/YEL wire. The BLK/YEL can be grounded via hidden toggle switch for a measure of antitheft

madaustinite

thank you! Never realized the goo there. Thank god you said goo cause then i wouldve never found it.

stroked_n_blown

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This is just what I was looking for picture-wise. I have the GM shop manual, and when I looked behind the tar paper patch below the hood release ( as was shown in the book) there was nothing there. Was something similiar tucked up above the hood release which I found after lowering the fuse panel. Don't suppose anyone has stock numbers for replacing these ( and where they can be bought), AdvanceAuto, China Zone, O'reilly and Napa don't even pull up anything called a Starter Enable Relay. And get this..guy at Auto Zone actually asked me what manufacturer made Camaro.


After a little digging online I come up with 14093107 as a part number, but when I type that into Advance Auto..nothing..some stupid little tools show up. Gonna try and cal lthem with that number.

this is an interchangeable part number for one I found from Standard Auto Products
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

After I told the guy at Advance that I had originally found the part number off a webpage of a guy changing one on a corvette, and then on here for another car..he checked under corvettes and found an interchange number. I forget what it was but I'll post it when it gets here saturday.

stroked_n_blown

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Hmm..I may still be looking at the wrong relay..only thing my blind a@@ seems to see is a relay with about 6 or 8 wires going into it that looks like this relay
http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/web...R%7CGRPRELAAMS_____# anyone know what that is for?

gee, maybe if I would have read the description I would have seen "headlight relay"

stroked_n_blown

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Well damn, I've been looking at the right relay the whole time but figured it had to do with lights because the relay was made by Hella 1100A2 etched on the side, and

4RD
980388-10
14100455

on the front face of it. Wire colors match what is supposed to go to the Starter Enable Relay though ( big Pink, Big yellow, green, and black with yellow stripe. Be nice if things would match the shop manual. This is a square relay, and the manual shows a more rectangular relay with the wire connector being a side by side connector

vetteoz

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Who's to say it hasn't already been replaced at least once in the last 20 years?

stroked_n_blown

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me..I've had the car for 20 years

and apparently Hella makes starter relays. When my guy at Advance ( thanks Talon ) typed in the number, it came back as a starter relay..with a cross reference to a BWD replacement..BWD R3177. That is the number to replace the square kind like in Pockets 2nd pic. And it worked like a charm, car fired right up. Center electrode on the original was pretty discolored and looked a touch scorched.

vetteoz

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Hella is one of the largest and oldest (est 1899) European manufacturers of automotive electrical components ;
supplies many OEM and replacement parts

http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/...la_history.htm

jacksobe

This is interesting. Do you think my 1988 Firebird has one of these? I've replaced the starter, pos. battery cable, ignition module (on top of the steering column, under the dash), and checked both clutch switches. I have to turn the lock cylinder all the way and then push really hard before the starter will kick in. After a few weeks of this, the starter won't kick in at all. I have a bad connection somewhere.

Any ideas?

X Jackal X

Oh wow, thank god this thread exists. I would have never of known the Starter Enable Relay's true location otherwise.