Ford solenoid starter wiring?

I have run a jumper for many years and that is how I always set them up but I use a solid piece of copper for my jumper.
And most guys that run a remote solenoid have headers so I am not sure why anyone would want to add another wire that would be close to header tubes and besides all of the instructions in kits I have seen all say run a jumper.

Mine is jumpered.

Curious why they say not to do it that way?

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Yeah, F all that noise. 10ga. Jumper is fine.

Depends on the starter. Some permenant magnet starters can stay locked in due to the residual magnetism in the starter. I had the ford solenoid setup in my car and had a tci starter and it worked fine. Switched to a powermaster and it tested fine at home just bumping the starter. Took it to the track and started the car for the first time and when I shut the car off it stayed cranking. Had to kill the battery main to stop it.

where did you read you should not jump the starter?....

bracketchev1221 said:

Depends on the starter. Some permenant magnet starters can stay locked in due to the residual magnetism in the starter. I had the ford solenoid setup in my car and had a tci starter and it worked fine. Switched to a powermaster and it tested fine at home just bumping the starter. Took it to the track and started the car for the first time and when I shut the car off it stayed cranking. Had to kill the battery main to stop it.

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I agree,I used the jumper when I had the stock starters, but when I switched to the Robmc starter due to the permanent magnet's they recommended using the I terminal, so I did. Really not that much harder to do it correctly.

If you have a specific starter that actually says to not use a jumper in their instructions then I would obviously follow their recommendation.
I will say I have never wired a remote solenoid to a factory starter but I have used many different aftermarket mini starters including Tilton, TCI, Powermaster, CVR, Tuff Stuff, Summit and a few unknown brands and still have not once had an issue with using a jumper.
As far as doing it correctly, Painless, Allstar, Summit, Jegs etc that sell the kits all use jumpers