"If it works- - - - -it's a Fluke!" I remember that one from way back in the dark ages!
LOL!

Ford used a pivoted field coil pole shoe to engage the gear into the flywheel instead of using a dedicated solenoid like GM. Even a little rust on the pivot pin dramatically increased the current draw to engage the starter pinion. Not much of a problem down here in the sunny south, but it was definitely troublesome up in the great frozen north with all the salt on the roads for six months at a time!
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!