chmee
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I recently purchased an '85 M1009. Used slave cables to start it when I picked it up and have just got around to working on it. Replaced a dead battery and the other took a full charge without any problem. Now, the starter grinds without turning the engine over. The battery I did not replace is an interstate. When I was picking the vehicle up to trailer it home, the glow plug wait light would come on and cycle off, but the starter would only click, so I figured I had a bad battery from the beginning. With the slave cables, everything turned over fine. The starter seems solid and the bracket is in place. Would the starter grind if the unreplaced battery was weak? Looking for something to try and troubleshoot this without blindly replacing another battery and before the grass grows taller around the new yard ornament.