Have you tried to manually turn the engine over with a bar? One of two
things... the starter was poorly rebuilt and shorted out (best) or your
engine has seized up or the cylinders are full of water (bad).

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Keith
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"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no
suffering." - Theodore Roosevelt
"John Smith" wrote in message
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The starter for my Yanmar 2gm was rebuilt a short time ago and it worked
fine the first few times. Today I tried to start and the engine turned
over a few times and stopped. I hit the solenoid a couple more times and
quit. Starter couldn't have been energized more than 5 seconds total. I
looked around and smelled smoke. Pulled the engine cowling and found the
bilge, 4 foot deep, full of heavy smoke. Cut all power of course.
Starter was very hot. Found a small puddle of waxy looking stuff under a
weep hole in the starter. Apparently this stuff that oozed out of the
starter was related to that smoke, it smelled like it.

Can someone give me a clue as to what this stuff is and what the heck
happened? I'm taking the starter back to the rebuild place but there's no
telling what they will tell me. Thanks.