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Today i made a quick run out to our pasture and while i was idling the truck battery died so i ended up pulling it back but didnt realize the truck was in 2nd gear while i was pulling it up the hill... so it made it sound like the engine was running, so when i got it home and put a different battery on it...it wouldnt start i dont know if its the distributor or something electrical and its getting gas. Any help would be appreciated.
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Tuned
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Hi. It could be seriously flooded. All those revolutions and no spark. Probably dumped lots of unburned gas in there. Try starting it tomorrow after it's had some time to dry out. Maybe you should pull out the dipstick and smell it for gas. if it smells like gas you should change it. Does the fresh batt. spin the engine over?
Dave.
Dave.
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From: Hesperia, CA
If the oil is full of gas you had better get it out fast. Not only the fact that you have a bomb there, but the gas eats the babbitt off of the bearings real quick. My son had a Chevy with an electric fuel pump. He flooded it due to a stuck float and left the electric pump on and pumped all of the gas into the oil pan. We went to pick it up the next afternoon. We towed it home after discovering what he had done. My son got around to changing the oil a few days later. When he started it up it sounded like a thrashing machine. Every bearing in it was shot. We took it to where all Chevy's belong.
Tuned
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Yes. The experience I had like that was; We were determined to get this old 57 dodge running. We finally put 24v to the starter. It sure cranked fast and finally it fired once, it was like a bomb going off. flames blew out everywhere. The oil fill cap, the slip on kind was found the next day about 600 yards away. We were lucky no one got hurt.
Dave.
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