Won't crank?

69signetv8 said
Sounds like it could be your starter motor contacts (inside the starter itself). The click of course is your solenoid making and engaging the flywheel, but perhaps your brass contacts are just worn enough to a point not to make the motor rotate after the solinoid is made. Sometimes, this is a on/off process. After time, the turning and pounding of these brass contacts during cranking wear down the contacts to a point that you start to loose a good contact area, therefore the starter motor will not spin. Sometime's it will work just because you have moved the postion of the contacts inside. If this "is" your problem..your time is running out.
It doesn't click, it clanks... Like the starter is engaging, but can't spin the motor over.
By the way, water in your oil will NOT stop the cranking over. Yes pehaps engine start-up.
What about water in the combustion chamber? Last time I pulled the heads there was a bunch of water sitting on top of the pistons.

Pulling the starter with headers :wack:

Yeah, I know, been there a bunch of times. :-(