assuming when you touch that single wire to the 12V [+] that you also have a wire from the motor case to the [-], no reaction and no spark says the motor is bad ... if you're changing to 12V you might as well find a 12V motor to fit

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