Thread: Help with turning engine on that hasent been started in 8 years.

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I have pulled the plugs and the valve covers to squirt Marvels mystery oil and regular oil in the valve train and combustion chambers. I will be trying to crank her up in a couple days, What else am I missing? Can I pull the plugs and turn the engine over to get the oil pumping through the bearings or should I pull the dist? Would it be a good idea to lightly tap on all the valves to make sure nothing is sticking?

Thanks for the reply . I pulled of the valve covers yesterday and the top part of the valve train and heads look brand new, as if they had been bolted on last week. We did not see one spec of rust. My brother put this thing together and parked it years ago.

Don't use the 8 year old gas that is in the tank.

Originally Posted by paul274854

Don't use the 8 year old gas that is in the tank.

ya,

I had a 350 that had set for 7 years. All we did was squirt some penetrating oil into the cylinders, and let it set for a week. Then we turned it over by hand a few times, ran the oil pump with a drill. We then hooked the starter to the 24 volt jump-off port on my m-1008 pick-up, and spun it over a few more times. Rust and carbon blew out of the spark plug holes, all over the wall in the shop. After that, we put in some new plugs, wires, and gas, and it fired up.

I'm not saying this is the right way to do it, cause I wouldn't do it again, I'm just relating a similar expieriance.

Originally Posted by BigTruckDriver

I have pulled the plugs and the valve covers to squirt Marvels mystery oil and regular oil in the valve train and combustion chambers. I will be trying to crank her up in a couple days, What else am I missing? Can I pull the plugs and turn the engine over to get the oil pumping through the bearings or should I pull the dist? Would it be a good idea to lightly tap on all the valves to make sure nothing is sticking?

This is why I'm happy I found this site
I needed the same advice plus info on the fuel pump.
I have a 1976 Chevy 454 in a 1986 Chevy pickup it got to where it wouldn’t get gas to the carburetor, I put a new pump on it but it still wouldn’t start. I could put gas in the carburetor and it would run until the gas was gone, I tried to prime the pump by filling as much gas as I could get in the line going back to the pump but it still wouldn’t run. I bought a new electric pump but didn’t put it on. Now several years have gone by and I was wondering about priming the engine before trying to start it.

I figured the tank or line must have been plugged so I’m not going to try using the tank until I can get it oiled up. The fuel pump has two lines if I hook a line from a gas can to the pump do I block one line off or what. I think that one line is a little smaller. Does this make sense or were there two lines because of the twin tanks or was it a return line? I’m going to take the advice on priming because the guy that put the engine in the truck had it rebuilt and I do not want to damage it. I would like to save this engine to put in my 50 Ford. Thanks in advance

Richard
Ford2custom

how about a chevy in a ford