engine and drivetrain engine out of storage

[vintage_car]

I'm taking a 2yr old engine that has been stored in a dry garage and starting to clean up the exterior. As far as internals what should I look for or look at to make sure this thing will fireup once it has been dropped in.

[tkent02]

Fill the oil system with oil from the oil pressure sender port down, fill the oil pan, and crank it on the floor of the garage, if it has compression and oil pressure it should be good. Make sure the water pump still spins freely, it should. It should be as good as it was before it was removed. This is a good time to replace a bunch of gaskets (oil pan, timing covers, etc. ) if you can resist the "while I'm in there" syndrome. How were the valve stem seals? Easier to fix now than after it's in the car. Same with oil pumps and other difficult to reach parts. If your resistance to that kind of wanton spending is low better not get into that stuff or it may not run for months, especially if you tend to be a perfectionist. Personally I would just throw it in as is and run the hell out of it, but that's just me.

[_z_]

won't hurt to squirt a little marvel mystery oil down the sparkplug holes too.. prelube things up a bit

I bet it starts right up

[vintage_car]

It ran fine before being removed from the car, the valve cover was removed and some of the holes weren't plugged properly so I don't know if there is any extra garbage in any of those openings. Should I run a special cleaner through it. Or just put oil in the proper places run it for just a bit, dump the oil and refill.

[vintage_car]

... fill the oil pan, and crank it on the floor of the garage, if it has compression and oil pressure it should be good.

What do you mean crank it on the floor?