Re: starter motor, Elgin 30

[davidk]

quote david bartlett:

David,

Is it positive ground?

Dave-
Rusty has suggested this to me several times but I dismissed him……because he’s Rusty. I don’t actually understand the implication of it being positive ground. The motor has the original wiring harness that has two leads for the battery. One is red tipped. One is black. So I put the red to the positive terminal. The motor starts…..well, started……and ran for a good 20 minutes.

Please give me a simpleton’s explanation (that’s to a simpleton, not from a simpleton) of what it means if the motor is positive ground.
-DK