Starter Relay Wiring

[70 Challenger Lover]

I was going to swap out my starter relay and noticed the new packaging advised having to ground out the tab where the brown wire normally goes. As I recall, the brown wire is the auto trans safety switch so the car can't be started in gear. Anyone else run into this on a new relay and what did you do?

[Cudajason]

I thought the brown wire was the ground...that's the point as you said of the NSS.

[anlauto]

Yes, your brown wire provides the ground

[70 Challenger Lover]

Got it. The whole "new design" and notice to ground the terminal threw me off. There's nothing new about the design and the instructions to ground out that terminal are redundant if you simply plug it in using the factory wiring.

[dodj]

Got it. The whole "new design" and notice to ground the terminal threw me off. There's nothing new about the design and the instructions to ground out that terminal are redundant if you simply plug it in using the factory wiring.

You got it.
They probably added that note about ground because of people replacing their solenoid when they actually had an NSS problem. Then complained to the company that the new solenoid is no good.