Okay guys, thanx for your replies:)

A talked to a friend of mine about it, and he said "Hey, i'll come along and help you get that starter off and we'll have a look at it. But you have to come pick me up, cause I've been drinking"

Well, so I did, and to make a long story short:
The starter is in mint condition, and I still have some years left in the brushes. Turned out that coal (or what that dusted powder building up in the starter is) had completely blocked any electrical contact between the brushes and the sylindric rotating thingy in the middle. I just brushed the dust of with very fine sandpaper and then cleaned it with som screenwiping-fluid.

Now my Datsun fires in less than a second on the key. It has never started so smooth before. I've already ordered an EU-control on this Monday, and I'm confident that the car will pass the test with ease. After all, during the last 4 years, I've been only two minor setbacks away from perfect score: I don't have the reflex triangle, and the wired conact for lights on attached hangers isn't securely tightened.

Errors so small, that I won't bother doing anything with them.

Must say that I'm looking forward to be using the car a lot more frequently, without the need of parking in downhill, and thereby leave my Eclipse in the garage for those "special occations"

Thanx all:) And btw: I'm still interested in details on where to get proper brushes, so I have reserves.

Hi!

A couple of years ago i bougt a Datsun 1200 Deluxe (1970-modell). It's been taken well care of, and passes the EU-controls with ease.
Now I've gotten into big problems with the starter engine (or so i think). If I try to start the engine, I only hear a click-sound. The lights in the dashboard lights up as normal, and the car runs if I start it by rolling downhill. And no, the battery is alright. I just installed a new one.

As you might understand by now, I'm not a mechanic, but I would be able to switch the starter engine if someone could verify that as the most likely problem, and if someone could advise me to which partnumber a suitable starter engine would have.

Can anyone please help me? And btw. I'm norwegian, so if any of the forum-members here have an address or phonenumber to a shop or something, I'd appreciate it.

thanx