DougWalters wrote:
That looks like the starter on my '29 DA. DO you not have a electrical shop you can have it tested by? It sounds like it is shorted internally . Do you have the switch that attaches to it?
I haven't found a shop so far that I would trust to test it. As for the switch, there was no switch attached to it, there was only a cylindrical cover I took off (should have put it back on for the picture). The cable for the switch is still there but had been cut. If this is the original starter then someone removed the switch which makes me wonder if it was working at all.