I have a completly rebuilt forged motor that has been together for almost 3 years now and it has never been fired. I have been working on the car off and on trying to get it ready...There is no oil in the block but everyonce in awhile i will squirt oil into the cylinders and turn the motor over by hand...

Question: Is this good enough or now that I am ready to start it for the first time should I pull the heads back off and check everything?

Thanks
Shaun

 

The only thing I would do would be take the rocker covers off and squirt oil on the rockers and down the push rod holes to the cam and lifters. Before you fire it unplug the coils so it wont start and turn the engine over with the starter and watch the oil pressure build and listen for any bad sounds. Once you have oil pressure plug the coils back in and make some noise.

 

Great idea!!! I will do just that!!! Thanks a lot!

 

I normally just press the gas pedal to the floor will cranking the engine. I have done it that way many a times.

 

is it just me???......i agree with conan above.

 

Hold the gas pedal to the floor and crank it to get any gas out of the cylinders.

The computer goes into a "clear flood" mode when flooring the gas and cranking, it doesn't pulse the injectors.

 

A lot of people, me included have had trouble "priming" the oil system prior to the first start up. Some people have overfilled the engine with oil to submerge the oil pump. I did the old jack the back of the car up which sent all the oil to the front of the engine to submerge the oil pump. I got that one from someone else here, so give that person the credit not me. Point being that if you start cranking with the car level and you get no pressure try to jack the back up as high as you can and you should build some good pressure. Just a suggestion.

 

I would feel better pulling the injector fuse. But to each his own

 

If the engine is on a stand i would just pull the heads and soak the lifters in oil. That way you know that they will prime up. I would also pull the pan and front cover to get the oil pump off and soak it too. Thats just me, because i hate working on an engine when its in the car.

 

It's been my experience that the starter doesn't spin the engine fast enough to get the oil pressure up. Just make sure you pre-oil the lifters and overfill by a quart and you should be good to go!

Jimbo

 

Just disconeect the coil packs and prime the motor untill the oil pressure guage moves to it's HIGHEST point!