> All other electricals work. Well, work as well as Lucas had designed them :-)
Which means absolutely nothing, when it comes to why your starter doesn't work !
The starter draws roughly 100 times as much current as the only other thing that
shares it's ground, the ignition coil.
I'm not saying you don't have a bad starter, only that it might be worth a
simple (I think) test to see how much juice it's actually getting. Use some
clip-leads ($8 @ Radio Shack) to connect a DC voltmeter (or digital multimeter,
$5 @ Harbor Freight) directly to the starter motor. Then bring it out where you
can see it while trying to crank the engine, and see what it reads. If you get
12v and no action, it's probably a duff starter. If it's down around 9 or 10
volts, it might be a jammed starter drive as Bob suggests (but most likely IMO,
it's a bad starter). But, if you see less than 3 or 4 volts, there is a problem
outside the starter.
Randall
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