After getting a trailer and installing a throttle cable for preparation for getting the truck back to Phoenix transmissions, an issue that has been an annoyance over the last several weeks has come into full consideration.
After chalking it up to a possible weak battery and replacing that battery with a new one, I am in the process of pin pointing why the truck won't crank over after it has been running. It seems to have extra resistance due to expansion, somewhere. I posted the below message to some of the forums and got some good responses for things to try to figure out what is going on.
I am to the point of getting this rig on the road, but there is one issue I can't seem to figure out. After the motor gets warm and is running good, if you turn it off, it will not crank over like it did when it was cold. It is as if the battery is dead but it is not cause I got a new one today. It just won't spin fast enough to start and eventually stops.
So process of elimination:
Solinoid - NewBattery Cables - NewStarter - New
The motor is a 351w that the previous owner said was fresh and after seeing the carbon build up on the back of the intake valves, I knew it was about as fresh as a camels a$$. BUT my goal was to get a few months out of it and rebuild or replace it anyway. When it is cold and it gets started, after it warms up it runs pretty dog gone good. It is as though the heat is swelling up the motor and it is locking down.If this turns out to be a lower end issue in the engine, I might have to put this project on hold to save up for a rebuilt engine*.
*See post "Trailer Up" post for what was causing this.
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