On engines that have been sitting up for a while, or on new engines, you
should turn the oil pump not the engine. When you pull the distributor, you
connect a shaft to the oil pump drive and turn it with a drill. This way
everything gets oil without turning over the engine. Your engine wasn't
getting any oil for a few seconds, meaning metal to metal contact.
Mike
> Hi,
>
> I was able to finally get the car started! I pulled the oil pump,
> packed it with vaseline and reinstalled it. I then changed the oil and
> filled the filter and reinstalled. I pulled the plugs and squirted oil
> in the cylinders and squirted oil down the driver's side push rods to
> (hopefully) fill the lifters. I then cranked the engine until the oil
> pressure light went out. By that time most of the valves on the
> driver's side seemed to be operating well (I didn't remove the other
> valve cover). I then reinstalled all the plugs and reset the static
> timing to 5 degrees (after I discovered that I hadn't tightened the
> distributor properly after the first time I had done it). I poured a
> little gas in the carburetor and it fired right up! I then dropped a
> hose, from the fuel pump, down in to my gas can and ran it a few
> minutes. It ran a little rough, but it ran! However, reusing the oil
> pump gasket didn't work (I didn't think that it would) so I shot oil all
> over the place.
>
> Kevin
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