Just did that last weekend with the starter off a 1977 Dodge W-200 (M-882 military). For the past month or so, I have occasionally had to crawl under and whack the starter with a hammer to make it turn over. Saturday morning no amount of hammering would make it work. I crawled under and shorted the solenoid to make sure the problem was the stater and not something else. Sparks flew from the top of the starter housing.
When I removed the starter, I could see burn marks around a copper rivet that grounds the field coils to the frame. I drilled out the rivet hole slightly larger to get clean metal, and drove in a new rivet. Total investment, two hours on a Sunday morning, and a copper rivet that my Dad bought who knows when to repair harnesses.
The starter was a rebuilt that I paid over a hundred dollars for three years ago, to fix the same problem. That time I was in a hurry and just dropped the truck off at my local auto repair, and wrote him the check.
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