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Old 12-27-2023, 04:31 PM   #5
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Default Re: Engine in the car for decades.

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Originally Posted by Karl Wolf View Post
If you can pull the pan, pull the intake manifold also.
I used a small pump, put a large pan on the floor and used a
brush to clean out the top and the bottom.
Use the oil pressure sender hole on the block to send oil,
whatever you're going to run.
Top end I like the Marvel oil idea, but whatever you have- OK. Turn the engine over, back and forth -by hand- until it will rotate a complete turn.

Karl
Karl nailed it, and just to clarify, turn it over by hand just a couple of degrees or so back and forth, feeling and testing the resistance, increasing only as it frees up.
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