Topic: Junkyard source for solenoids
Anyone have any idea what sort of cars I'd want to look at to grab an easily accessible (i.e. up top, not buried down next to the starter motor) starter solenoid?
The later the model, the better - my local yards aren't exactly brimming in classic American Iron (or really even much in the way of 80's garbage) or I'd just go scout it out the hard way.
Or maybe one of you fine gentlemen has a castoff from your parts car that you'll let go for peanuts?
Backstory and reasoning follows:
So I've had a very nice winch fall into my lap and I'm working out how to mount it to my truck. The cutoff switch is borked (the switch bit is missing) so I have to fix that. This led to some other modification decisions (pull the control box off, stash it under the hood, replace the cutoff switch with a remote-triggered solenoid, toss the remote control plug behind the grille, run control lines into the cab...)
All of this is easy, except that solenoid in place of the cutoff switch - I don't have any of those lying around. The natural course of action here would be a starter solenoid. I could drop $11 at Summit Racing and get this: http://www.summitracing.com/parts/AAF-ALL76203/ or $20 on any random one at RockAuto, but I don't think that's within the spirit of this truck build (cheap and halfass at all times) so it's off to the junkyard.
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