Did I just kill my starter?

[Scratcher]

So I have issues, but that's another story for another thread. Anyway, Big Red is dead due to FSS issues. So I decided to bump it forward a couple of feet to get closer to my working area. So I turned the key while in 1st gear, thinking it would lurch forward but instead the starter hardly moved. My first thought was that I had killed the starter, so I dipped the clutch and sure as my suspicions it struggled to spin. It almost sounds like a dying battery but both batteries have 12 Volts.

I know the starter was good before because I tried to start it normally and its a fairly new Nippon gear reduction upgrade I di a couple years back.

So. Did i kill my starter? Can it be rebuilt?

Thanks in advance

 

[Nero]

Just because you have 12v at the batteries doesn't mean you have a loose/dirty connection at the battery and/or starter. You could also have batteries that are just tired. Load test the batteries and bench test the starter before replacing parts.

 

[Scratcher]

Just because you have 12v at the batteries doesn't mean you have a loose/dirty connection at the battery and/or starter. You could also have batteries that are just tired. Load test the batteries and bench test the starter before replacing parts.

All the connections are good and solid. (I'm pretty **** about that stuff) It turned over just fine when I tried to start it normally. It was after that, when I tried to bump it forward on the starter that it failed. After that I tried it normally again and its was dead. I went into my local rebuild shop and they confirmed that I probably fried the starter due to the fact it was fighting against a high compression engine.

 

[Nero]

It's possible it's dead then. I once had my clutch slave fall off, and had to start my truck in 1st, with a fully loaded camper on it, and it did just fine, odd yours gave up the ghost on the first go. I still have the same starter.