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12-04-2012, 05:17 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Overland Park, Ks.
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Grounds
Make sure your ground cables/straps are all hooked up. I put my new Goodwrench 350 engine in my 56. I went to start it & it just grunted & turn slow. I looked under the hood & the oil pressure tube was glowing red hot.
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12-04-2012, 06:08 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Toppenish, WA
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Re: Grounds
Back in the mid 70's I replaced a lot of Pontiac Grand Prix floor shift cables because someone had changed the valve cover gaskets and didn't reattach the ground straps from the firewall to the valve cover bolts on a number of cars. The cable would weld it's self to the housing and not move.
make sure you have clean bare metal under the ground straps on the block or the other end of the cable too. Our collective penchant for painting everything up nice and pretty bites us a lot of times when we insulate things with paint.
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12-05-2012, 04:13 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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Re: Grounds
ouch, luckily it didn't let the smoke out
 had a 70s ford, every time i pushed the clutch in the headlights turned off new ground cable fixed that too. my 58 has a stud under the cab on the frame, ground cable from stud to: battery, body, motor and stereo.
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