emmd61 Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 I have a 64 Riviera garaged for 6 years. I want to hand crank it over and prelube prior to start up. What direction does engine crank over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gungeey Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 Clockwise 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 2 hours ago, emmd61 said: I have a 64 Riviera garaged for 6 years. I want to hand crank it over and prelube prior to start up. What direction does engine crank over? Unless you intend to prime the oil pump with an electric drill and/ or spray something in the cylinders to lubricate them, you would be better off getting the engine to start as quickly as possible in order to get oil pressure up to lubricate all the moving parts. Otherwise, just turning the engine over by hand will do little more than rub dry parts together. Just my 2 cents... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seafoam65 Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 What you need to do is remove the distributor and spin the oil pump driveshaft with a flat blade bit and extension clamped into an electric drill. the oil pump shaft rotates clockwise, as does the distributor shaft. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seafoam65 Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 Oh, and you can buy oil pump priming extension tools for your drill online for about 30.00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gungeey Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 Strip the guts from a distributor and you end up with a nice oil pump primer that ruins off a drill. Not that the fella was asking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XframeFX Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 (edited) For priming and wanting to be cheap. I couldn't find a crummy screwdriver among my tools. New low quality screwdrivers can be had in a multi-pack, NG. So, a 3/8ths Wood Spade Bit for a couple of $$ with the pilot tip ground flat from surplus, the easiest. I have a spare distributor but, wanted to keep it whole and did not want to mess with it. Edited June 13 by XframeFX (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 1 hour ago, gungeey said: Strip the guts from a distributor and you end up with a nice oil pump primer that ruins off a drill. Not that the fella was asking. That's what I've done in the past. I told a friend to do that on a Chevy small block one time and he left out the important step of removing the drive gear from the distributor. You can guess how that worked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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