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Message: <blockquote data-quote="flyerdan" data-source="post: 116375" data-attributes="member: 2510">The switch issue should be easy to trouble shoot, just put a light tester between the small wire off the starter and ground - the light should go on and off with the key turned to start.You don't say specifically, but I'm assuming that when you say it runs on that the gear is engaged with the flywheel? That could be from the bendix not returning due to misalignment or being crudded up. Normally they're flung out due to inertia to engage the flywheel, and, as foton points out, the rotation of the flywheel and spring tension retracts it.Or, it could be lever engaged by the same solenoid plunger that applies battery voltage to the motor, knowing which type will determine where to go if it's not electrical. Hopefully the switch replacement will cure it, but it's been my experience that when a switch fails it doesn't make contact anymore, not fail to release, but if it's gummed up and the springs are weak that could happen.</blockquote>