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40 Deluxe · 06-04-2012, 02:04 AM

C'mon guys! What's with the ham-fisted, redneck "solution" of pulling the car or needing 12 volts?! If you had bought the car new, did the dealer have to pull it around the block for you? No, it fired right up and away you went.
If it won't crank fast enough to start, something is WRONG! Fix it first.
"Shim the bearings"?? Why?? So you can hear it knock? Maybe the muffler belt is too tight!

06-04-2012, 02:04 AM	#7
40 Deluxe Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: now Kuna, Idaho Posts: 3,779	Re: hard cranking flathead C'mon guys! What's with the ham-fisted, redneck "solution" of pulling the car or needing 12 volts?! If you had bought the car new, did the dealer have to pull it around the block for you? No, it fired right up and away you went. If it won't crank fast enough to start, something is WRONG! Fix it first. "Shim the bearings"?? Why?? So you can hear it knock? Maybe the muffler belt is too tight!