A buddy of mine just rebuilt his 350 and upon start up it abruptly stopped. heres the info.
This has been his first rebuild the only thing he sent out for was honing the cylinders and installing the cam bearings.everything else he did his self.
Before he started the engine for the new cam to be worked in he turned it over probably about 10 times not started just to make sure the starter was working fine with the fly wheel (earlier it was giving him trouble.)
So about 3 minutes into the cam break in while he was setting the timing the engine just abruptly stopped.
when he went to start the engine up again thinking it was just a timing problem the starter wouldn't turn the engine over and the starter actually got stuck out(engaged) into the fly wheel.
He was having some problems installing the crank bearings when he was rebuilding the engine because as soon as he tightened the pistons down the engine wouldn't spin. but he did end up resolving this issue.
Any ideas before he parts out the engine? we tried using spacers for the starter but we ended up putting all of the spacers that came with the starter and the problem still is there