WHOAH<,,,,, if you have a foot starter, you do not have a solenoid.
If you hooked the jumper cables up and they got hot without doing anything else, you either hooked up the wires wrong, or something is not right with the starter, battery or connections...
Is this truck a GMC?

There is enough good in the worst of us and enough bad in the best of us that it does not behoove any of us to criticize the rest of us.
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Be yourself. If you are ever lost, It will be much easier to find yourself if you know who you are!