stealth13777
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No oil in the cylinders. Not helpful, not necessary.
Are you saying there is no lube at all in the oil pump? Installed dry? If so, that could make it tougher. If you pump enough oil down the turbo hose, and since you said the oil filter was full of oil, if you pump enough oil down, it may get to the oil pump the back way. Try that first. If no go, then you may want to get what's called an engine pre-luber (google it). Basically, in the simplest form, it's an oil tank into which you put the engine oil. You then connect one of the hoses to the engine lube system (usually at the pressure sensor port, or you could use the turbo hose). You can pressurize the pre-luber with compressed air, open the outlet valve and basically fill the entire engine via the the lube system. That will definitely prime the pump. You'll have to drain the crankcase first, so as not to overfill the engine with oil.
The pump is the same one that came out of the motor, and I simply bolted it back in; never even thought about priming it or anything else. It sat on a shelf wrapped in a rag for 3 months. So I guess yeah it's essentially dry. I'll google that as recommended.
I figured a shot in the cylinders would help protect the walls and rings. If not that'll save a decent amount of work for me. I put engine lube on the walls when I pushed the pistons in, but that'll only protect so long.
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