White Outdoor Lawnmower LT-1650(2000 i think)

[shaunsgsxr]

the solenoid under the seat was not sending out any electricity so i replaced it. now the lawn mower turns out but not fast enough and the negative battery cable over heats. it trys starts to shortout until i unhook it.
i am not sure if i have it wired correctly. so does anyone know where the 4 wires ont the solenoid go. there are 2 bigger red wires, 1 gray and 1 orange/white. i have one red wire goin from battery to solenoid and the other red wire going from solenid to the front of the engine. i have the orange/white wire goin to the solenoid. and i have the gray wire going to a body ground.
do i have it wired wrong? thanks for any help

[Restrorob]

Do you have the smaller fused wire (should be red) hooked to the larger cable going to the battery ?

[shaunsgsxr]

the only fused wire i see is the gray one. it goes to the body and then a fuse is on the other end

[Jay Ray]

Remove grounding screw to frame and clean ground with sand paper?

[shaunsgsxr]

well see the problem is i cant remember where i took the gray wire off of when i first unhooked it so i dont know actually where to put it back

[Restrorob]

The gray fused wire needs to go to the large red wire leading to the battery, This wire supplies battery voltage to the tractor wire harness. That leaves the orange/white to go on the small post on the solenoid. There were a few of these units that had two black harness ground wires installed under one of the solenoid mounting screws.

[shaunsgsxr]

ok thanks man for all the help. ill go try this out and hopefully it works
thanks everybody

[shaunsgsxr]

so does the big red wire and the grey wire go onto one of the posts on the solenoid? and the other red wire goes on the other post?
correct right

[Jay Ray]

If you take your model number, starts with 13A, and has 11 total digits and numbers (I think), and is followed by LT-1650, you can plug this in at partstree.com and get a look at the schematic under "electrical system."

You might need the serial number too, I'm not sure.

This info might be under the seat, I'm not sure about that either.

[Restrorob]

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