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thrifty · 09-22-2019, 09:49 AM

27 TT I have been trying to get this truck started. It has been 15 plus years since it ran. Yesterday was the first attempt to start it. I cleaned the commutator connections as they looked dirty. I did oil the commutator but only but a few drops in it. I did not want to saturate it. Is this supposed to have more? I could not get the coils to buzz when the ign. switch turned on. Only when I started to crank it by hand they would buzz. And when I turn off the switch and turn the switch back on the coils won't buzz until I hand crank it. Of course the starter will not crank over so I have it out now to try and fix that problem.

09-22-2019, 09:49 AM	#1
thrifty Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: Pahrump Nv Posts: 20	27 27 TT I have been trying to get this truck started. It has been 15 plus years since it ran. Yesterday was the first attempt to start it. I cleaned the commutator connections as they looked dirty. I did oil the commutator but only but a few drops in it. I did not want to saturate it. Is this supposed to have more? I could not get the coils to buzz when the ign. switch turned on. Only when I started to crank it by hand they would buzz. And when I turn off the switch and turn the switch back on the coils won't buzz until I hand crank it. Of course the starter will not crank over so I have it out now to try and fix that problem.