priming the oil system
#2
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When I built my engine I cut the top off a QT oil and held it up into the pick up tube. Then took a wrench and spun the engine over as fast as I could and it did suck out all the oil from the qt bottle, did that with 2 qt's. Unpluged the coils for first start up and it build oil pressure in about 4-5 second.
#5
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By unpluging the coils the engine can't fire but will spin with the starter. This will prime the engine with oil and you can watch the oil pressure gauge go up to 30-40 psi. This is also a good time to listen to the engine for any bad sounds. Once you get oil pressure plug the coil packs in and fire it up. You can also pull the fuel pump fuse to get the same result.
#7
TECH Junkie
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+1. if you're going to disconnect coils you really ought to pull the fuse for the fuel pump, also. if it's on a stand obviously you need not worry about either of those issues. give the pickup an oil source, find a way to crank it over, remove the plugs to make it easier..etc.