Hello Everyone,
I have 1982 Chevrolet K10 pick up truck (4X4) V-8. 305 block. It been sitting on my driveway for a pretty while probably about 3 months. Anyway, battery was no good, I replace another battery and when I start up, the engine grinding, after several attempt trying to start - no luck. Went check under the hood, make sure battery was tighten, all the sudden I felt that postive and negative battery cable was very hot - any idea why ?


Thank you

 

Starter maybe locked up (hopefully) or worse engine could be siezed. If you can vidio and post would be helpful

 

Hello Friend,

Sorry for long delay... something come up with my job. Yesterday I had removed the starter and brought it to a friend of mine who work at auto shop. They said that this starter is good. Was told it may be a bad ground connection. I decided to buy a new battery cables 48" long. It works! My truck had been sitting over few months. I finally be able to drive around, unfortunately 10 minutes later, I heard a loud "BANG!" .... (I'm deaf myself) It was really loud!. I could see water mist coming out of hood edge. Found upper hose burst big time. So, now I assumed that this thermostat was stuck closed the whole time. I'm not going to give up and keep on working on my toy

 

Good Lord yeah I guess you could say the thermostat was stuck lol