I wouldn’t pour oil down either intake or exhaust. If it works like you want it to, you may wind up with enough oil in the cylinders to cause a hydraulic lock and then you’ll have to pull the injectors anyway to safely turn it over.
Pulling injectors isn’t too big of a job, just need a 3/4” open end wrench for the line nuts and a 1” socket and breaker bar or torque wrench to get the hold down nuts loose and retighten them later to 110 no more than 120#-ft. You’ll like to have a couple o-rings to replace the ones that will come off with the injector body and hold down nut. These are dust excluders, they don’t seal any fuel, so you can reuse the old ones or do without temporarily.
When you are reinstalling the injectors, clean any rust and dirt out of the precombustion chamber area and off the injector tip and body/adapter piece it screws onto. This screw connection between the injection “valve” as CAT calls the tips and the body is a loose fit and is not tightened past finger tight before you drop the whole thing into the precombustion chamber. Tightening the hold down nut seals the joint so it doesn’t leak fuel.
Line connection at top of injector body can be left slack to bleed air out of fuel system to prepare for starting.
I would file and set the points gap before removing the mag for service. That’s probably the most common problem.
Where you located neighbor?
Thanks CCJersey, I guess I'll pull the injectors after a good cleaning then start draining everything. I did consider the chance of hydro locking it. Not fun, happened to me once on my old B model mack after the can over the stack blew off in a heavy heavy rain storm. I'm over near Bowling Green Rome K/G .
Your just a stones throw away! I'm from Curtice, need anything email me.
I appreciate that, might take you up on that when i get ready to start this thing.
I would not put oil or anything in the cylinders or take out the injectors, I would change fluids and just start it .
Wouldn't you have concerns with dried out rings and cylinder walls after sitting for 25 years?
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