Originally Posted by adiaw83

It was a bad battery. I got another one tonight and it started up after a lot of cranking. It took the thing forever to turn over on its own. it was basically running but the starter was turning it over kinda. Don't really know how to explain that. Anyways it finally started and I checked the voltage at the battery terminals with it running after I put on a new voltage reg. and it read about 14.1 volts so hopefully my problems will be cured after I get some good fresh oil in there.