I counted my incoming emails and sent emails and got 46. Plus 7 PM's. Plus 10 pics and several videos. Some may be embarrassing. Some are tough love. A lot was going over what was already gone over. We already had 10 pages on here. My last post is what happened just to verify spark was actually there. He goes to work fairly soon after we get going and emailing back and forth. That's no ones fault. Jimmy can post anything he wishes. He has compression, spark at, I think, the right time and is repeating, tried new gas down carb. No fire.
Starter is slow as far as I can tell from my house. He tells me over and over that battery is 12.6V or better. I told him that I've see starters show static 12.6V, be rechargeable but break down, It fools you. I don't want to explain the whole world of electrics, ohms law, specific gravity, hi and lo coil windings, pertronix.. to a guy who is new to this and wants the motor to start...... and i don't profess to know all that stuff either. I sensed, after a long time, that maybe he didn't know how to test a plug. He didn't. He had to buy a socket to turn the crank and so on. No big deal, but doesn't play well on here.
So I asked him to clean battery posts and clamps, starter and ground connections, to see if starter will speed up. Even though he says battery is new, take it to two places to get load tested. I told him if battery is breaking down, or starter is breaking down, that they will suck most of the available 12.6V and cause weak spark and/or weak spin. Testing with headlights on doesn't tell you if battery break down, starter breakdown, solenoid breakdown, cable or connection breakdown, ignition switch breakdown, ground breakdown.
I guess I saw a good spark from his non adjustable plugs (video) after we made some "spark plug testing procedure adjustments". So after clean cables, after battery load tests, then I guess we will attack and remove the starter. It does probably rotate enough for a good starting motor with good gas, hot spark, on a really hot day. It rotates about as slow as we have all seen on a battery going dead, but not dead yet. It's not a correct speed for a 6 cylinder, low compression motor with the plugs out. ALbeit very cold outside temps. If the starter is good, something is wrong inside motor or valve train.
Jimmy: Just thought of this!!! Check your oil ASAP to see any light color or milkyness. My grandson had water leak into crankcase and we broke the nose off of two starters before we checked the oil. Motor was locked pretty much. Whatcha call yer hydraulic lock. Just like this, we thought it was the starter. We said fudge and dang it after we found it.
