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well I have great news. reinstalled the starter, redid the battery cables w/ McKee's diagram. Gave the primer a few pumps and she roared to life. No better sound in the world to my ears! took it for a test drive and everything shook out pretty well. Few leaks here and there, soft brake...

Update: Starter is back together, tested resistance on coils and appears to be good. thank goodness, hear you on the prestolites . My father, the electrical engineer, is visiting, big help. heading up at to re-install, correct battery wiring, thank you so much for the diagram and get her...

Thank you sir, The books are good, but learning from others experience is so much better in real world situations. I liken it to apprenticing in a trade. You read and learn theory, and then you work in the field with the master side by side actually doing it. that is the real teaching...

will have the starter checked before re-installing it. way too heavy to do that one twice.

I restopect, I do not trust the voltage readings on my $2 meter at all now. I do have the bats hooked up wrong. I plan on correcting that sat, reinstalling the starter, and hopefully bringing this thing to life. I will report back on sunday. It says "Private" under my handle for a reason...

"the google" is pointing to me being an idiot.... i have themconnected parrallel as oposed to being in a series.

Thank you for the replies. Mckee, I'm not real good at schematics, but I think I understand what your saying. In simple terms, I removed the orginal 6v's, left the "long" battery cables attached to their original terminals (both pos and neg) and removed the very short cables and terminals that...

sorry about the quality, I left the cables in the original orientation on the terminals for the main pos and neg, and deleted the short jumpers betw/ the 2 6v in each box. was rading 24v @ the slave recep. also

more pics, on bats pos term is on right, towards front of trk

Finally got the Dump up from AL and deliverred to our place up in the Northern Neck of VA. It was purchased non-running, but complete w/ good rubber. Hardly a steal, but I'm happy. Looked it over thurs day after we dropped it off the trailer, drained the gunk from the fuel filter can...