1994 Ford Tempo Car running and starter cranking at the sam

I'm free help, so you may want to wait for another reply. Since this is a strange problem, you should be more thorough in your information! But it sounds like you wired it wrong! Or the starter is defective? Or maybe wrong starter for car/year? You didn't specify new or rebuilt? You didn't say if old starter was working fine with the ignition switch until it failed? You didn't say why you replaced starter? I have no means of judging your competence as a self repair person other than your say so? I usually have starter tested before I install. Even if brand new!

Hi fixitmr and jediray15. Three heads are always better than two.

Along with the possibility of it being wired wrong, pull off the red / blue stripe wire plugged onto the solenoid. If the solenoid turns off, (and the starter stops cranking), reconnect the red / blue wire. If it starts cranking right away, suspect the ignition switch. If continues cranking with the red / blue wire off, the solenoid contacts have arced and welded themselves together. Resinstalling the old one will solve the problem. If the solenoid remains off until you turn the ignition switch to "crank", then it stays on again, you have a solenoid with a second small terninal for the neutral safety switch circuit and those two small wires are turned around.

The ignition switch causes a lot of problems, but not usually for the starter circuit. There are four small plastic pins that ride on a rotating cam. They push on four contacts. When those contacts overheat, they cause the plastic pins to melt and the affected contacts will remain on.

Caradiodoc

Hmm. I'm thinking the ignition switch is probably not the problem because they are usually not intermittent. They usually act up continuously. Next time this happens, pull that red / bue wire off the solenoid and see what happens.

Caradiodoc

I dont know the specifics of 6cyl model as I have only worked on 4cyl myself. The 4cyl has a solenoid on the fender well and 1 on the starter depending on stater model in use. This can make the wiring confusing especially since your other hot wires for car are put on the fender mounted solenoid. Basically on starter only solenoid all hot wires go to top large post and key start is a small rubber plug or connector going to small post beside it. What exactly do you mean when you say you changed solenoid? Where/why? Dont rebuild come with solenoid? Also could you describe how many posts on solenoid and what colors/how many wires you have on them?

Change ignition switch go here. https://www.2carpros.com/forum/1993-ford-tempo-ignition-switch-vt441202.html
so your tempo has 2 solenoids also like the 4 cyl ? like i said, this can be wiring nightmare? but if you copied exactly like original then that does make it a puzzler.idid a google search and found that ford had recalled tempos for bad ignition switches at 1 time? so maybe yous is 1 of them? the problem was stated as no start.