Series 2 starting issues

[Gaia]

We own a much loved 1963 Series 2 Land Rover. For a while we’ve been having problems starting the car: sometimes she starts and sometimes she doesn’t. When she doesn’t, all you hear is a click. A few years ago the start motor was replaced and then a year ago our garage (a regular garage not specialised in old Land Rovers) changed the starter again. But it remained unreliable. Hitting the start motor usually helped, but we wanted to solve this once and for all. Our garage started to investigate but only made it worse: now there is no click anymore and hitting it doesn’t help. The only way to get the car going is to push it. Does anyone have a suggestion what the problem might be and how to solve this? It’s not the start motor itself, that much we know.

[acpatsouris]

Is your vehicle a petrol or diesel model? Would it be possible to post a picture of starter?

[siiirhd88]

If you still have the large pushbutton starter switch, the contact disc inside can corrode preventing contact. They can sometimes be taken apart and cleaned or sanded to restore the surface.

Bob

[roverp480]

I had similar issue when returning home from France to UK, nothing when I operated the starter switch. It turned out to be a bad connection , main battery cable to the starter switch. Suggest you first take off each connection a, clean a replace , just to make sure they are all OK.
Previously I had intermittent contact with the push button switch and rebuilt it as mentined by siiirhd88