The upper pic is the back of the switch with a heavy red wire already connected by the black wire at the BAT terminal. That's the first pic he sent me before discovering the other wire not connected. the lower pic is a loose wire that was just dangling in there. There's not another terminal left on that switch for that extra red wire.
I didn't say it was definitely HEI, I said POSSIBLY. He said it had been completely rewired and thought it could be for something like that and wasn't used. I just saw that that red wire was already on the switch and all the terminals are used. He said he found that other red just hanging there.
No, as said, it could be cigarette lighter or who knows. Anyone's guess is as good as mine. Distance diagnosis is pretty prohibitive. I am pretty sure if I had it hands on I would figure it out.
some miscommunication somewhere between our phone conversations then. He initially texted me that first pic he posted. All wires were attached. Then he asked about the red wire he found that wasn't connected. Unless somehow trying to check more wiring and accidentally pulled that wire off. I don't know.
My apologies, I did miss that and just got off phone with him and he clarified. He's going to take original starter and get new solenoid and bendix installed. I'm definitely thing he has a bendix/flywheel mesh problem. When it just clicks and don't turn over then after a few tries it does it sounds to me like maybe after a few clicks it finally moves the flywheel just enough to allow the bendix to engage and cranks BUT it's very noisy. I've never ran into that problem and the starter isn't like a block mount, can't just shim it. I know I had an old Chevy pickup one time and sometimes when I cranked it, it would start and starter was still engaged. I would have to pull a battery cable and it would stop. It might not do it again for a week and sometimes it would do it 2 or 3 times a week. I ended up filing every tooth on the flywheel and it stopped doing that.
