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BUSY BOLTERS Are you one?  The Shop Area
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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 23 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 23 | just posted a topic on my truck not starting after i weld on it. i posted some pics that i had here at home on a web site, i will take a bunch more next time i get to the farm. the green truck is the one i am putting a dirt box on, the excavator is an ebay purchase to dig ponds, and the 1958 chevy is my father in law buying another old truck from another old guy.\ [img] http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?folder_id=1163305[/img] | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 23 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 23 | | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 23 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 23 | man i suck at this. the topic on my truck not starting is in the engine and driveline forum but is should be here. | | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 | You are doing okay fine. This actually is pretty easy once you do it a few times. I did move your post about the truck not starting to the Big Bolts forum.
If you have any ?? about using the forums, on the intro page, there's a pretty good FAQ section. Norselander even did a good job making some images with arrows and everything.
And ... while we're here ... welcome!!
Peggy M
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 | Are you getting spark when it doesn't start? The only thing I can think of is the points maybe getting damaged some how. May also just be a coinsidence too,
Scott | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 52 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 52 | who gives a rip about the truck - I want that excavator!
Life's short - don't waste it.
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 332 Big Bolt Shop Curmudgeon | | Big Bolt Shop Curmudgeon Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 332 | I'll leave the analysis to the welder experts, but I would offer this comment.
Make 100% sure that your welding ground is as close to what you are welding as possible and that you are not getting any transient amperage running around throughout the truck frame and electrical system.
Welding currents wandering around looking for the ground will fry the coil, points, regulator and anything else that can be discovered.
But thow can that be? Well, trucks are fraught with rusty connections that divert electrons from intended paths, and welding amperage will walk through rust and look for unintended paths of least resistance.
Drivin' down a 2 lane country road in a stovebolt.....cowboy, it don't get no better than this!
1946 1-1/2 ton Chevy
"Ol Blue", or "THE BIG 'UN"
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