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On off switch installed, used a house wall switch. One side hot the other to fuel pump and coil.

Water in radiator, hay don't forget to close the block drain valve. hehe

All in readyness I think to bring Miss Agatha to life. All that needs done is throw the switch and crank her. However, I am going to do a bit of dry cranking first to try to get some oil pressure.

Only thing I don't like at this point is that the chokes are so tight, but I expect they will loosen up with a bit of use.

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Plug the plugs and crank until you have oil pressure, put the plugs in, and fire her up. This coats all of the bearing surfaces with oil and fills the filter and galleries with less load on the moving parts. Phil
 
Roger that.
 
You have broken open a very precious memory for me. This is one common-sense precaution I remember my father taking, but in a different way. I was about 8 or 9 years old, so it would have been about 1956, two years before the Bugeye - it is so sad that these modern cars like the Bugeye lack a hole in the front where you can insert a starting handle. My dad loved his Riley 1 1/2 and whenever he stripped it down I would help about as much as a 9-year-old can be expected to help. He would religiously turn it over about 30 times with the starting handle to "spread the oil about" before reinstalling the spark plugs and starting it up again.

I thank you for that moment of remembering.
 
Jack, Prime the oil pump. Remove the banjo bolt on the metal oil pipe from the block side, pour a few ounces of oil down the block, replace the bolt. It will be good to go.
 
Oh, good idea Frank. Yep, will do that first thing in the morning. Well second thing, thursday is the day about 12 of us old timers get together for breakfast. Kind of fun but no car guys there.
 
jack, i'm collecting all this wisdom for my turn ... good luck and let her rip!
 
I got to admit folks that I am haveing as much fun recounting this as actually doing it. It is a lot like a little kids Christmas.
 
C'mon Jack, it IS little kids, and it's almost Christmas...there is a Santa!!!
 
Mike's right, we are just a bunch of little kids, playing with our little cars (not that much bigger than my old matchbox cars). /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Good luck with the firing, Jack. Hope it's a good day for you.
 
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