[TR] Starter won't engage

[terryrs@comcast.net]

As you possibly recall, I'd replaced the flywheel and clutch, buttoned 
everything up, and the previously working starter now failed to engage the 
teeth on the flywheel.  I could hear it push out, even hear the starter 
whirring.  I did try turning the engine a couple of times in the vague hope to 
get the teeth in better alignment.  

Battery worked.  Lights worked fine.  Etc. ad nauseum.

Getting ready to pull the starter, I unbolted the positive cable from the 
battery and noticed the post was clean, not corroded, but blackened.  Same with 
the cable terminal. Wire brushed the contact points, reconnected, and the 
starter worked just fine.  

The battery terminals were enough of a problem to be a problem but not to look 
like a problem.  

Didn't have to pull the starter.  Started getting things ready to sandblast my 
wire wheels, which I've top coated several times over the past dozen years, but 
are starting to look tired.  Never sand blasted before.

But sand blasting doesn't look like a problem....

Terry

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