It sounds to me like you have a faulty starter solenoid/bendix combination which is the round rather short assembly mounted on top of the starter. At least that is why your starter is hanging up and not releasing after start up. I would say replace or rebuild the whole starter. Now that might not fix your "no start' situation. My 85 quit one day and I just installed a push button start switch from NAPA and used that for several years. I was of the opinion that possibly the old non-functioning security system was the cause of it. I replaced the ignition switch and nothing changed. I wired the new start switch to that little terminal box with the three screws along side the passenger front inner fender

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