Thread: attempting to prime

I'm finishing up a rebuild and I tried cranking the motor without the spark plugs or ecu fuse. Cranked a few times about 20 seconds each time to get some pressure. Will the starter produce enough pressure to shut off the oil light?

It did for me. From what I recall it took a minute of turning over.

MAS

Alright thank you. I'll give it another go tomorrow. Battery didn't have enough charge to crank it for too long

Problem. Getting no pressure at all. Checked the oil filter and it is dry. Did not prime the oil pump with petroleum jelly. Dumb mistake I know... Any ideas so I can get oil circulating?

Still nothing

I just had this happen to me at just a couple months ago.

Get a hand held oil can, the type that has a "sqeeze" style handle and a long nozzle on the end, fill it will frech motor oil. Pull off the oil filter and take a small peice of tubing that will fit over the end of the nozzle and push the other end up into the slot in the oil filter neck.

Kinda judge how far you are in so that you are not too close to the pump itself and start pumping oil in with the oil can. After a couple of pumps, have a wrench on the crank pulley and slowly spin the crank pulley the same way it spins when it runs, as you are pumping the oil.

Keep doing that until oil starts coming out of the other holes in the oil filter neck, once you get oil coming out, turn the motor over by hand and see if more oil keeps coming out, if it does, then put your filter back on, and crank the motor. That should get the pump primed. After you get oil pressure, install your plugs, and crank again a couple more times, just to make sure you still have pressure. If you do, hook everything up, and start it up.

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PRESSURE once it starts if you don't SHUT IT OFF.

This worked for me, I hope it works for you, just make sure you have pressure before you start your motor, or you will be replacing bearings.

Good luck, and hope this helps for you.

Thanks for the walk through. Someone told me to do the same exact thing this morning. I'll give it a shot later tonight

Got pressure right away after that (: thank you my good sir.

Running like a champ now

Originally Posted by WOTFTW

Got pressure right away after that (: thank you my good sir.

Running like a champ now

Glad it worked out for you!!