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Chevy 350 problems

Tiny
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I recently rebuilt a chevy 350 and ive got it all together in the truck and when I go to crank it I spins over very slow and after a few seconds the battery cables smoke but ive replaced the cables and batteries and used multiple starters but it still does the same thing
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010 AT 7:22 PM

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Tiny
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Did you check all the bearing oil clearances?

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Monday, December 20th, 2010 AT 8:55 AM
Tiny
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Yea I did I got all new parts and plastiguaged every rod connection and they are all within specs. But I fixed the problem it was the battery cables they were old and had been sitting for a while and were corroded
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Monday, December 20th, 2010 AT 9:10 AM
Tiny
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OK, good to hear, thank you for using 2carpros.

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Monday, December 20th, 2010 AT 9:23 AM

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