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Message: <blockquote data-quote="flyerdan" data-source="post: 112433" data-attributes="member: 2510">The clicking is probably an electric fuel pump that will slow down and stop as a preset pressure is reached, so it will be most noticeable at the first start of the day when pressures have bled off.The whirring is the starter bendix not engaging the flywheel, it's probably just gummed up. It should be pretty easy to fix, and while you're in there, clean the solenoid contacts and the plunger that contacts them. I've got a forklift that took forever to start, the square head copper bolts in the end of the solenoid cap had eroded on the half that the plunger disc contacted, I carefully tapped them out and reinstalled them 180 degrees so that the new part met the plunger. Works like new, something to consider while you've got it out anyway.If you can't get it to start, perhaps you can raise the boom with an engine crane or something else to get it high enough to tip the cab. Don't know what you have to work with, I always think in terms of what I have available.</blockquote>