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Originally Posted by gimlegule
If I start the car in 2nd gear rolling down a hill instead od using the starter it will start imediatly, If i use the starter it harly turns and the batterycable get hot and start to smoke, I changed the starter and the battery and both battery cables and still it hardly turns over and smoke start to come from starter if i turn let it go to loong, but it still works but slovely just as the other starter that was newly overhauld and used to work perfekt weeks ago. Can it be a exchous valve that doesnt open, so it create to much compression ? its hard to hand crank when the pictons comes up .I thought aboute the bearing on axcle holding the picton rod that they might been to tight, but they are old and not touched, so probely loose instead of tight. any inputs everything have been fine until reasently it got harder and harder to start with the starter motor until almost impossible
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When a part gets hot and starts to smoke, it can be caused by high resistance or by too many amps running through the wire for it's size. Since you bought two new cables, I hope you got the correct size, but like Mitch said, I've also seen 12 volt cables work OK. These cables are fairly short, so you should have very little line loss.
You mention hard to crank, so you need to determine if you have a mechanical problem with the engine. How hard is it to hand crank as compared to another similar Model A engine?
Have you checked the starter switch screws length (5/16") to make sure they aren't too long and shorting the fields?
A tight engine or a short in the starter will make the starter draw too many amps and heat the cable.
We need feedback from the owner, or it will be a lot more guessing.