Here's the latest....With the key out, there is no power (by test light or multimeter) in the brown solenoid wire and the starter will crank with the brown wire unconnected or connected. My old school ( '68 thru '88) mechanic skills tells me that the old starter had a stuck solenoid and the NAPA rebilt is faulty also. How else could the starter, now in my shop vise, crank with jumper cables only?? Am I wrong in asumming that the starter has the solenoid built in, or is there an external solenoid I havent found? This all started when I was searching for a problem which is draining my battery in 24 to 36 hours.