72ChargerHawkeye
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Okay so I am at a loss. I have a 72 Charger base model with a 78 360ci 4bbl. I recently removed my alternator to remove and replace my fuel pump that was cracked. After I put everything back together I cranked over the engine for awhile to get fuel up to the carb. After all this cranking I swapped out the battery as it took a lot of juice to get to that point and got it fired up. Once it was running reliably after tuning the carb in I pulled the current battery and put the original one in to charge it back up. I left the car running for about 45 minutes to an hour. The next day I came out to fire it up and when I did the cranking was really sluggish to the point of not firing. When I opened up the hood I saw the body ground from the battery to the radiator support was smoking from an old but splice that a previous owner had made. So at this point I figured it was a bad ground. I put a charger on the battery overnight at this point figuring that it wouldn't hurt to have a fully charged battery. Next day, I replaced the body ground cable with a new 10 gauge cable. Cranked the engine over and fired right up. Let it run for about 15 minutes while I tinkered with some other non-electrical stuff on the engine. Shut the engine off. After about 5 minutes I tried cranking back up again and it is back to a sluggish crank without firing but no smoking body ground yet. Any thoughts on where I should begin or what the problem could be?