One major step further, 5Ks wagon

[Pat Korach]

David

Happened to me once with a new battery after I was working on the engine.
Turned out to be the ground strap not connected.  The one attached to the left
motor mount going to the chassis.

Pat Korach
Kirkland, WA

David Templeton wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Well I took the plunge, and started the engine even with out that vacuum
> line properly hooked up. I tried to crank and got a very slow, intermediate
> crank. The battery is brand new.
>
> When I had this before the head job someone mentioned a splice issue and
> that the Audifan archives would have a solution. I searched ad found
> nothing, so, if someone could direct me to a web page etc that would great.
>
> I hooked up my truck and boost started the car.  There was a lot of chatter
> from the valves, figured it was just the assembly lube and not much oil yet.
> (did crank the motor until oil squirted up to the cam).
>
> After 2 minutes the clatter settled down a bit but was still noisy, I think
> the dizzy may be off a tick. So I will have to look into that.
>
> When the engine ran for about 4 minutes, smoke starting rising from the
> engine, not to worry, all of the crap burning off the exaust manifold :-)
> while all of this was going on I checked the tailpipe and the black crap
> that was coming out before was still coming out!  I start thinking, "oh no,
> I didn't fix the problem". The longer the engine ran, the gunk coming out of
> the tailpipe cleared up, woo hoo, must have been all of the left over stuff
> in the motor and exaust.
>
> I then figured I would try luck and turned off the engine, no leaks, good
> thing :-). Go to start again and still hard to turn over, need the boost
> from the truck. Really need to solve that.
>
> Overall, very happy so far, couple of minor things to tackle, the engine is
> a lot more responsive to the pedal.
>
> Are there any tips about the following:
>
> - cranking slow to no crank. - chattering valves, could it be timing off a
> little?
>
> Thanks and regards
> David A. Templeton
> '85 5Ks wagon.