Thread: Engine start up advice

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Somebody has given you bad advice!!!! if you squirt oil into the cylinders and then put the plugs back in, then try to start it, the engine will go into a hydraulic lock and damage the engine, the starter, or the flywheel. Oil is a fluid, and consequently can not be compressed. If it has sat for 10 years, pull the plugs, squirt a mixture of light engine oil and fuel oil (about half and half) into each cylinder, (were talking 8 or 10 good squirts here). Let the engine set overnight, pull the coil wire off so it can not possibly fire. then without putting the plugs back in, try to roll the engine over with the battery. If it rolls with the starter, crank it over untill all the oil has cleared from the cylinders.---then drain the oilpan and put new engine oil in it. Then reinstall the sparkplugs. The carburater gaskets may have dried out, so there is a big potential for leaking gasoline at the float bowl. ----Have your fire extinguisher handy, and do the next step outside your garage.---If you are getting spark at the coil when the engine turns over, reconnect the coil wire. Put about a tablespoon of gasoline down the air horn of the carburator, and crank it. If it starts, then great. if not, you may have to start tearing things down.