Just load tested battery. Came back good and fully charged. Checking cables. If I bypass the starter cable from the battery and use a jumper cable directly from pos battery to starter, will that simulate good cable connection?
Thanks for the feedback! It's my first rebuild so very much could have missed that. I was careful to make sure they went back to were they came from and used existing bearings, as they looked ok. I didn't do a plastiguage tho. Maybe I should have? The crank seemed to spin ok after I re-assembled it.
Thanks all! I also tried another battery from my F150 which runs well, and ran jumper cables from it directly to the starter and jumped the solenoid. Same slow crank from the starter. I'll load test my car battery also.
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There was some strange anomaly. When I pulled the plugs to test the starter without compression, it turned over just fine. When i put the plugs back in, it also started right up. When rebuilding, I put the plugs in before putting the motor back in the vehicle, then put heads on, and...
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