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I've been having some hot starting issues with the Healey, culminating with a failure of the Bendix drive engaging at last week's British Car Show in Boston and me having to roll the car downhill and bump start to leave the show field. Then I started hearing some noises coming from the bellhousing on the drive home. When I took out the starter and disassembled it, I found this mess in what was basically a new starter. Luckily, no damage to my aluminum flywheel. The mini starter I used has its own solenoid which I wired in conjunction with the Healey solenoid. After researching it a little further, it looks like when wired with two solenoids the mini-starter can act like a generator unless a diode is added in the system, causing the solenoid not to fully release the starter when the starter button is released. I suspect that's what happened here. So I ordered an older-style starter without the attached solenoid. Wired it up to the Healey solenoid and all seems right with the world again.