.....Thanks Gassersrule, Mike, R Pope, Jerry & Firebird77, ok I will put a squirt of Marvel Oil in the cylinders... Actually no, I've never primed an engine before! I knew that the Dist. needed to come out but that's it. I will follow your directions though to take the intermeadiate shaft out. So I guess the tool I ordered goes all the way into the oil pump? For some reason I thought it just turned the cam, which turned the pump. And I'll remove the rocker covers to make sure they are full & that oil is on the rockers & valve tips. I don't want to take any chances on this puppy! The dist. should be in right as Big Al's ran the motor before sending it. And it will have new gas in it..... It's going to be a pain to do this as the motor needs to come forward to get the dist. out! I have a little hole in the firewall for dist. clearance but no way will the dist come out & a drill motor fit in there. So I'll unbolt the motor & trans, slide the motor forward, prime it, slide it back & then fire it.... It will probably be a couple of weeks till I get to this point though. Just wanted to know ahead of time what I was faceing. If I had it to do again I'd probably move the entire firewall back. I still have to finish hooking up the fuel lines {firewall to engine}, Alternator, starter, wiring, radiator, grill, elect. fan, gas linkage, & steering. But I'll fire it before I do the steering.... Thanks again. I don't know what I'd do without this web site! Bill