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Slow start could be many things. Tends to relate to insufficient amps available to crank the engine over. Heat related problems tend to relate to heat soak in the starter. You need HD high torque starter & a quality solenoid & 4 ga. cables to be trouble free. (if the car has headers the problem is worse). I'd start by examining all these components for wear and quality. Load test the battery to see how many amps are available. A current draw test on the starter can be performed to see if it is requiring too many amps. If you're bored, pull the starter and check the internal solenoid contacts and brushes on the starter. Some of these cars came with a heat shield for the solenoid. If its been removed, that also affects heat soak. Too much ignition timing will cause a slow crank, but 8� doesn't like too much. It is possible that the balancer ring has slipped and is not reading correctly, though. A cam that's too far advanced will cause it as well. When you don't know how the car was put together, there's a lot of variables. Begin with the starting system, quality parts and an 800 amp battery can start most anything. Glenn >From: Jeff Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Chevelle-List] Air shocks >Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 09:06:01 -0600 > > >Replies to this message are sent to The Chevelle Mailing List >------------------------------------------------------------ > >I recently bought my '71 Chevelle and even though it sits tucked away in >the garage for the Minnesota winter I am always thinking about it. In fact >yesterday a friend brought over what he said was "all we need to time the >car" but all he brought was a timing light. We set the timing but I still >have a problem where the car turns over slowly when hot. I then read in the >service manual that you can set the dwell without a meter by turning in the >dwell until the car bogs then opening a half turn so we did that and of >course rechecked the timing and it was at 0, so reset that back to 8� and >the motor seemed to sound better but still does the slow starting. Any >ideas on what is causing this? > >On the rear the car has air shocks and I want to take them off. What would >be the best replacement system for the rear? With hardly any air in the >shocks the car "wheel- hops" all over the place with even minimal >acceleration. Sorry for these newbie questions but I haven't worked on >these cars since I was a teenager and although it is coming back to me >slowly I feel the need to clear my thoughts with you guys until I build >more confidence. > >Thanks in advance for the help. > > >-- >Jeff Fischer >Lake Elmo, MN >'71 Chevelle SS, 454, 4 spd, matching numbers >(In process of restoration when spring gets here) :) >http://people.mn.mediaone.net/addss/chevelle.html > > >----------------------------------------------------- >To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html >To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
