flynrider wrote:Sevulturus wrote:Hit the starter with no gas in the carbs?
And we won't even mention the lack of spark plugs
Shorts, all you want to do is to make the engine revolve slowly to distribute the oil to the cylinder walls. Electric (or kick start, if you have it) will do the job just fine.
Ok, so hitting the starter is the way to turn the engine over then.
Yeah, no spark plugs installed during this in case of too much oil in cylinders. And no plugs = no spark for ignition.
And fuel petcock OFF, so no gas to be ignited if there were plugs.
Do I understand that correctly?
I was thinking like you do in vehicles to turn the engine over by hand in order to get the distributor seated and for timing.