Are these actually worth buying? And how exactly does it work? Im so tired of dealing with a heat soaked starter. Im hoping that this will cure my car not starting when its hot.

 

I've used remote solenoids on all my old chevys. Work good for me. The original solenoid draws almost 50 amps hot, and it pulls those amps through a small gauge wire that runs from the battery, all the way to the key, then back through the firewall and down to the starter. Thats a long pathway with lots of resistance. A ford solenoid draws just 1 amp and that doesnt increase from heat like the chevy unit. It then supplies power to the starter and original chevy solenoid through a large battery cable. Much less resistance=more power at the starter.

If your starter is fried though the remote wont help till you get a new one. I've tried heat shields and they didnt work near as well as the remote solenoid. Another nice thing about a remote is there is only 1 wire going to your starter. And its never hot unless you're cranking. Less chance for shorts and much easier to change the starter. Plus the remote solenoid makes a great place to connect power accessories instead of cobbling things up at you're battery.

 

Call me dumb but do you actually remove the original solenoid from the starter? Its hard to imagine since Ive never actually seen it before. I just hope that It will solve my problems but I my symptoms arent of typical heat soak so I dont know. Its the fact that I can jump start successfully while its still scorching hot????

 

Nope you leave the original solenoid on the starter. The whole idea to this is to give the original solenoid more power than the 12 or 14 guage original wire to it can supply. Same deal as shorting the solenoid with a screw driver.

 

ok I see now. That makes a lot more sense. Um one more question. When heat soak happens are you able to jump start your car??? Because I am able to and I didnt think you could when heat soak set in.

 

When heat soak happens are you able to jump start your car??? Because I am able to and I didnt think you could when heat soak set in.
yes, you can.
heat stroke works like this. your car starts fine and you drive it around. you stop to pick up your girl friend. while you were driving and are currently being questioned by her father as to our intent, heat is transfering, absorbing, soaking into your starter and wires. headers are worse because they typically pass closer to the starter. well you convince her dad that since you drive such a bitchen car you can't be all that bad. you and your date get into your car and clickety click. the afor mentioned heat caused the resistance to increase. thus requiring more amperage. your car may turn over really slow or not at all. when her dad jumps you off, he is supplying you with extra amperage to get your car going. now since your car is unreliable, the only way he will let you two go out is if you take his crappy cavalier. he also tells you that continious heat stroke on a starter will eventually kill it as it promotes bearing wear, shorting connections, and what not.

hope i didn't get too far off course. some will say that the starter is shot with the first heat stroke. the sure fix is a new starter with heat shield and a remote starter selinoid. i believe there is a tech article on this one. click here for tech article.

jess