69 Coupe not turning over

[trfcrugby 10]

I just finished installing a 351c 4V in my coupe from a donor Cougar. The motor was running in the Cougar before I pulled it.

 

Dropped it into my car, and just completed making all of the connections this afternoon. I don't have the new ignition installed yet, so we attempted to turn it over by jumping the hot terminal and the S post on the starter relay, and nothing happened. I took a length of wire, and jumped straight to the starter side of the relay, and the motor turned over just fine.

 

This relay was brand new out of the box, but I figured it might have been bad, so I tried two other older relays I had. The odds are really against all three relays being bad.

 

Is there anything else I can check that would prevent the relay from working when the posts are jumped?

 

I have it wired with the red/blue on the S post, and the brown wire on the I post, hot wire from battery is on the foward post by the S, and the starter is on the opposite side.

 

Any suggestions?

[02Lightning 10]

When you turn the key do you get voltage to any of the little wires?

[mymach 0]

Make sure the relay has a good ground. Just a thought...

[Truck 12]

I've had four Fords with the same relay...they were all wired differently. The newer 3 were late 80's-early 90's and they used both the S and I terminals. From what I remember, the 69 only used one.