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Old 02-18-2020, 05:33 PM
5cylinder 5cylinder is offline
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Originally Posted by Diesel911 View Post
Remember you are only activating the Starter Solenoid and in fact your Glow Plug Relay so you are not dealing with massive amperage. I have done it with 16 gauge wire and in fact the remote starter switch I have also seems to have 16 gauge wire on it.
Excellent clarification that also happens to highlight a mistake in my thinking: I was erroneously thinking that I would be passing along the sizeable amperage but on more careful analysis, you are of course correct - the jumping would entail only energizing the relatively low amperage starter solenoid.

Thanks for responding.
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