On 3 Sep 2006 18:53:00 -0700, "bruce" > wrote:

>While I had the starter out, I disassembled the solenoid and took the
>contacts out of it and cleaned them up They weren't horrifically
>corroded or anything, but I figured bare clean metal would get e better
>connection. <snip>

Did you remove/burnish the contactor ring driven by the solenoid
armature? VERY common intermittant failure in any vintage Nippondenso
starter.