well as you know, i just rebuilt the motor in the bird.... its now a 303:hick: machine shop....:giggle:
im trying to start it and it just slowly turns... barely..... ive fried a battery cable already :hick:
just askin..... should i just run out and get a hi-torque starter? and a new selinoid.....lmao.... ....
whats your guys's opinion
Make sure you got a good ground.I put my motor in went to start it and the starter puked.It was only ground through the gauges.
Forgot to hook the ground from the bat to good ground.
im gonna clean up the firewall ground wire next time i go out there...... and fix that stuck injector D:
you pull the engine and then dont fix the injector?
Well, I would bet it would be more better with a better starter or something like that.
i got to looking at mopar starters, would a 318 starter work? looked like they were the same...
and ideas?
how is the timing? if it is off it'll crank hard
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say NO...stock style starter should fire that thing with no problems...unless you have diesel like compression of 16:1+ lol
With the plugs out, can you turn it over with a socket and breaker bar on the crankshaft pully bolt?
timing is dead on..... maybe i just have a weak starter
yeah and its a biznitch lol it moves freely.... but it does turn
it turns freely, but its kinda hard to turn..... harder to turn that it was when i first took it out..... but thats because of the rings..
did that help? ...... im in a zoney mode today
NEW ISSUE!
alright, i changed the starter it cranks alot better... but the battery cables are getting real hot... to the point where the terminals start melting
help me out, i really wanna get this thing running again
for some reason you are pulling too much voltage to start with. the wires should be 8 gage. but me im going to build my own battery cables when it comes time for that but if they are 8 gage wire i would go out and get 4 gage wire. a little more bulkier so that doesn't get hot. but before doing that look into why you are pulling too much voltage. a short maybe? or possibly a open curcuit? i can't really do much without the car sitting here and all and without a wiring diagram. but if everything checks out look into replacing the cables.
im running all 4 gauge wire, uhm... all the grounds are wired nice now.. still no avail
imk beginning to think that the shop is gonna get rich off of me
In the bad old days the shadetree proceedure for starting an engine that was too tight after a rebuild: Hook a chain on it and drag it behind a truck to jump start it.
After it starts, run it for 100 miles. It will either break-in and loosen up or it will seize-up and you start all over.
I don't ever remember seeing 8 guage wire on the battery terminals of either of my '87 cats. My first one was owned only by me and my step-father. He never changed the cables and I got the car with about 50K on it. I remember 4 guage.....
My current cat had 4 guage when I bought it, but I have no idea whether it was original or not. I've replaced it since with 4 guage.