Time to Kick the tires and light the fires Options

[pitr256]

Hi 914 gurus!

I finally got the motivation to get my Dad's old 914-6 back up and running. It has been sitting in garage for the last 15 years. I parked it shortly after I inherited the car because of oil streaming out the right side of the engine.

It's been a long (and wonderful) process of trying to get the car running again. Pulled out the fuel tank to scrub, replaced the center fuel lines, pulled the engine to be rebuilt (turned out the oil leaking was caused by a couple of broken cylinder rings), cleaned the webers, re-greased all the wheels and bearings, and then put everything back together.

We're in the final stages of assembling everything (waiting on a couple of gaskets and stud bolts) but hopefully by this weekend we will be able to fire up the engine for the first time in far too long.

And I'm really nervous about firing up the engine for the first time in years and years mainly because of how much effort we've put in to get it to this point and I don't want to waste all that effort by forgetting something trivial.

So my plan is to disconnect the fuel pump and let the engine spin over a few times to get all the oil back to the places it needs to go. Then once satisfied that there's oil back in the system, hook the fuel pump back up and see if she fires up.

Is there anything else I should be thinking of doing before I'm ready for the engine to actually kick over? Besides making sure it's in neutral? rofl

Thanks!

Peter

[76-914]

You will most likely need more than a few seconds to get oil pressure to indicate at the gage. On startup I prefer a temporary mech oil gage. What kind of oil do you have in it for the break in? Did your mech give you a run time for break in? Did you change out ALL rubber fuel lines? It doesn't hurt to have an extra body on hand to man the accelator; your going to be as busy as a one armed Cranberry Merchant for the first few minutes. Oh, one more thing. Fire extinguisher on hand, maybe two and know how to use it before you need it. i.e. read the instructions on the bottle, first. Sounds stupid but they don't work well when applied incorrectly. Go get 'em tiger. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)