there should be an insulating piece inside the box the button is on to prevent battery power from shorting directly to the pedal arm and ground, you may have fried something in the starter - take the box off and look at how it works, either your rebuilder messed up or the switch there was buggered to start with

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics & Rust-a-holics Unanimous parking lot