Long story short - I'm going out of my mind and I should be able to fix this - I'm certain. But, alas, I give up. Maybe all of you know how to do this, but I don't. All my bolt holes matched up and I have it installed and I even have the starter turning (albeit only when I put a wire to the hot part of the solenoid and another to the switch ... I replaced the switch a year or two ago and I keep this thing garaged so I don't think the switch should be bad, but that's NOT my primary issue). My primary issue is that I can get it to run and I know (or, I think I know) that my problem is the wiring. I thought it could have been the solenoid, but after watching every YouTube video on the subject I could find and finally figuring out how to test my 3-pole solenoid (and also buying a 4-pole solenoid), I think it's just fine (especially since when I can get the starter to turn with a switch).
I've thought of yanking out some of the safety switches like the dead-man's switch on the left handlebar. I've getting a little older and I just can't keep gripping on it anyway. It's got a green wires in/out that then go to the mower blade clutch switch (I don't really want to cut out the safety on that one for obvious reasons). Can I just take the entire green wire out to bypass that hand-grip safety?
Anyway, so I need to figure out which wires go where. I've got a bunch of photos. This mower has a fuel solenoid with white wire and black wire coming out of it and I have no idea where they need to go. I also have a black wire coming out, I suspect, from the alternator, but I don't know if that goes to ground or to the hot terminal on the battery. Ideas, please (right one's would be sincerely appreciated)!
Here's some pictures that my show you what I've been going through. The first photo is of the motor I took out (yes, the cylinder blew out).
