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Progress report, new starter arrived, bolted it in, appears to turn well, no grinding noises so that's super result. No firing from the engine which gets me to RegW point

I think this is the case. Precious driver was my elderly dad and yup, he's said to me now it was a s**t to start. After I finished banging my head on table, I've realised this is more learning ahead haha. I'll start a new thread tho, starter is doing what it says. From what I've read quickly, fuel filter cap oring, new filter can't hurt, check fuel lifter perhaps if it has one? Glow plugs, are they getting voltage and so on. Suspect never changed ever. Grrr!

Appreciate all the help and advice to here, been awesome to find this place.

The grey stuff looks like some sort of teflon type grease?  I'll try clean it all off and see how it works after just as that's something fairly easy.  Commutator and bridging, it looked pretty good but will double check.

Any ideas how to decide on teeth number for a replacement, you sound pretty clued up?  My thinking is as I'm getting another, I'll pull the gear off this one somehow and then see if it meshes by hand/torch.  Bit destructive but not much to lose at this stage!

Hi. Finally some time free to get back to this. Took starter back off and checked brushes, they look clean but pics somewhere here for more knowledgeable eyes. Back together and still the lack of kick I think points to this being a bit dud.  The engine gear turns when the crank pulley is turned so the shaft seems ok.

Then I've looked online for starters.  I've put the van reg into for example autodoc.co.uk and the ones come up listed:

Number of Teeth: 11\\13

and another below it as :

Number of Teeth: 9,10

and again another as:

Number of Teeth: 10-11, 12-13

So this is confusing!  Any way I can suss out what the van should have, given this one now is not stock.  It has 13 teeth but maybe wrong?

I've measured the teeth on the engine side using blue cloth, teeth are 7mm centre to centre