starter trouble

[Brian]

Maybe your starter is just going bad.  How many miles on it?  When the
starter started to go in my 92, the problem began as a "bad spot" on
the starter.  Once in a while (especially on cold mornings) the starter
would just click.  There were two ways to start it:
1.  Put the car in neutral, give it a little push to get it rolling,
and put it in 1st and pop the clutch.  You can do this yourself -- the
object is just to get the starter to rotate past the bad spot, not to
push start the car.
2.  Get a jump.  The additional power from the jumper battery was
always enough to get it fired up.

Eventually I got fed up with these half-assed starting procedures and I
put in a new Mitsubishi starter.  Sounds better at startup than the
Hitachi.

BK

From: Slamtry <slamtry@yahoo.com>
Unfortunately, the starter will now not turn the motor
over. It just makes a click. Does anyone have any
ideas on what might have happened? I can't see any
wires I might have disconnected. I am so pissed at
Dan Hugh-Jones