Ok —stay with me guys. Here is what I did now.
i found the loose end. I carefully unwind it around the spool till it comes back out to the lug I want to reconnect, where the broken end is at.
as an experiment, I make a splice with the 2 ends, and it seems to try to energize the solenoid. My splice is not a soldered yet. I just twisted the wires together. Just to see if the solenoid will energize. It does but when it goes to neutral, I can see sparking—- the spool seems to be arcing where the rivet for the e unit lever is , the rivet that the lever rotates on. But on the inside of the metal case that that holds the spool.
so at least the e unit will work —-when I solder a new connection,—- but trying to not get that arcing on that rivet looks like the next challenge. I’m pumped that I figured this much out with all the help you guys are giving me.
any thoughts etc?