Alright, the truck is sold but not gone. I was going to drive it Friday but the starter died. The truck sat from Friday until Sunday without being touched.

I got the starter in about 3:00 o'clock today and thought I'd test the thing out just to see if I needed to back the mounting bolts off so that that the bendix gear and flywheel could mesh up.

I did not touch the gas pedal because I wasn't trying to really turn it over. I barely hit the key and the thing fired right up.......now that's weird because the old girl usually likes a few pumps of the pedal before she fires up.

I did take all the starter wires and the wires from the fender relay loose and sand the crap out of all the metal contact points.....?

Is it black magic or did I just get lucky this once?