I had this intermittent problem on my '03 Pete 387 and it never was solved even with replacing the starter, relays, grounds, etc. I'd turn the key, wait for everything to cycle on and off, turn the key to the start position and everything would go dead and the truck wouldn't start. I'd wait a minute or two and try it again and it might work, and it might not. I just learned to live with it. After replacing the starter, the problem did become much less frequent and severe.
Now my '06 Pete 387 does the same thing, but only very rarely. I've found that starting my APU and letting it run for a minute or two seems to help when the problem does crop up, but that could just be coincidence. My thinking is that somewhere there's an intermittent ground fault (or even a hot faut, or relay failure) and that the extra juice from the APU is enough to overcome the short.
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