any help would be great!!!bad starter??

i own a 1960 fordson major it was starting great for a few days after i got it now when i try to start it i hear a click sound..... i took te starter off and checked the brushes they seem to be fine im at a loss.....

put a meter across battery.. whats it say when you hit button and hear click?

so far I'm hearing dead battery / bad connections...

Was discussed on an earlier post. I'm betting internal solenoid contacts (if all your other connections are good).

Follow the voltage. Don't know which your Fordson uses but it matters not. Take the nominal battery voltage and when you push
the starter, what happens to the battery terminal voltage. If it holds close (15%) to the battery rating battery is not the problem. Go
to the starter. Check between the case where it bolts up to the engine block and the voltage input terminal. Push the button. If you
don't read 80% of the battery voltage with a new starter that worked, probably not the starter.

Go back to the input side of the solenoid, the 3/8" stud. Roll here again. Should read the same voltage there as on the starter side
of the solenoid. If not, replace the solenoid.

If you did all that and didn't find the problem, you have a bad terminal on a cable or you have a bad connection somewhere between
the starter and the battery. One place to look is the engine block. Getting into it is usually a steel bolt in a steel casting.....not your
best conductors to start with but when is the last time you cleaned up that area. Mounting of the starter case to the engine block.
When is the last time you cleaned up the surface of the block where the new starter mounts and cleaned up the threads where the
starter mounting bolts attach.

You can get across any of the intermediate connections with your volt meter and if you measure any voltage to speak of, something
is wrong with that connection and don't rule out a corroded crimp connector to a cable end.

Let's hear back what you find.