Cold Starting Long Standing Engines

Wow,

First of all thanks to all who responded. The wealth of knowledge and opinions on this is as usual, overwhelming. I will give this some thought as to my next step on these engines. As for the engines themselves. The Fiat 1500 is indeed an internal camshaft engine but it has been so long I cannot remember what I used for engine assembly lube. I used a zinc assembly lube on the 273. I had already pulled the plugs and added Marvel Mystery Oil to all the cylinders before hand turning over the cranks on both engines. At the minimum I will most likely drop both pans and investigate as well as both rocker covers. I will research if I can independently run the oil pump on the 1500 to see if I can pre lube the components. I cannot remember if the oil pump is tied directly to the cam or crank or run off the distributor. That was the basis of my question about pre lube pumps. I was pondering if I could use the oil filter ports to plumb an external pump into the oiling system.

Once again thanks to all. I am going to take my time with these and try not to fubar the situation.