I did some more tests with the multimeter, and as I move the leads from place to place on
the case and from brush to brush, sometimes there is continuity...
Anyhow, felt compelled to look a little deeper...

Those plastic parts didn't take kindly to me spinning the terminal post around.
The little part, #6, is easy to order... the other part is the one I grayed out in the picture...
It has no part number, I don't think it can be ordered...

If anyone knows that it can be ordered, please tell me how/where...
If anyone has a dead starter and wants to part with the unorderable part... let me know

Thanks...
Pinwall has some decent looking starters for $99, and some less decent looking ones for $65...
sure would be nice to find that plastic part...
-Mike