It was a long enjoyable weekend with a vist from my sisters kids, I let
them drive our '48 Farmall Super A tractor around the field and we
carved pumpkins and ate BBQ. Lots of fun. I did find time to correctly
replace the cylinder head temperature sensor and put the oil pressure
sender back in its proper place as I had mistakenly replaced the oil
pressure sender with the new temp sensor last week. The oil light does
not stay on anymore which is a good thing. However, I was not able to
test the theory that the temp sensor was the problem with hot starting
because.... Yup, you guessed it, now the van won't crank. I had this
problem last winter and was able to take a long 1x2 and bang the
solenoid and it cranked after that. Now I bang and bang and it still
will not crank. I was able to push the van off and let it run for a
while to get to running temperature, I was hoping the engine heat would
loosen the solenoid. No go. So.. this coming weekends project looks like
a testing of the solenoid/starter to see if it needs replacing or just
greasing. Has anyone done this before? Got any advice? Any gotcha's I
need to look out for?

Thanks much,

David Higginbotham
82 Westfalia
Silk Hope, NC