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Slow starter - BBC
i recently rebuilt my engine with higher compression and now need to address the slow crank issue.
Have any of you worked on this and have a recommendation to solve it? Shorter, thicker cables? Gear reduced marine starter (is one avail?) thank you |
I'm having the same issue, looking forward to the replies.
Ryan |
Bad starter or battery or bad cable or connection not to be funny you need to go in there with volt meter. |
Ok, so if the starter and battery are production and 100%, it should turn over a production Mercruiser as well as a 10:1 Mercruiser? I say this because both starter and battery worked well with the standard Mercruiser |
Originally Posted by 14 apache
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Bad starter or battery or bad cable or connection not to be funny you need to go in there with volt meter. OP look up how to do a voltage drop test. Perform it with the ignition coil disabled. |
Put a meter on each cable se what voltage loss you have. Standard starter should work. You can try adding pos cable direct to battery. Double check all ground cables |
Thanks for the feedback.... sounds like a standard starter will work. I am replacing both positive and negative cables with 1 AWG gauge copper wire. Will report back |
Price out the difference doing it 1/0 solder the ends and make sure you have a good battery switch. Spend the extra money find good tinned cable look on eBay. |
are you using a gm mini starter?those starters will spin over most anything.
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Yes, I am using your gym starter. I appreciate the comments above regarding the cable as well. I will pick some up and solder the ends and minimize the links overall. I’ll report back |
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