Starter Problems?

[Erik719]

Went out to start the Heap and no joy.

Background:
1983 Jeep CJ w/ 1979 AMC 304
Dual Optima yellow tops
Mean Green starter
Last trip I was playing in the creek and had water up over the floor boards.

Turn the key and nothing, no starter nosies but I have power to lights, radio, etc. Throw the charger on it for about 24 hours, come back and I have 13.8 volts at the battery. Try again and the same thing. I jumped the starter solinoid and got a click out of the starter, but it didn't even try to spin.

Get under it to make sure the wires are tight on the starter and bang on it a little bit to make sure it isn't stuck. Still nothing.

Pull the starter so I can try to bench test it and notice some water leaking out. I took the starter apart and dried it out with some WD-40, cleaned up some corosion and put it all back together. Put it back in the Jeep and still got nothing.

So that is where I am now. Any suggestions?

[J.Russ]

When you bench checked it was the solenoid engaging?

[Ghost00TJ]

Take the starter to a parts store that does free testing.
Clean up your grounds/connections and try again.