Outer Limits 4x4 Board

looking at buying a cruiser that hasn't been turned over for a year, looks pretty tidy but just has a lazy owner who let the battery go flat and didn't care.

Any of you 2H gurus know of problems that could arise from this, like valve sticking or something? Or should I not worry about it given i can start it and no horrible noises occur?

i would probably pull the glow plugs out and drop a couple of drops of oil down each of the cylinders before trying to turn it over. A couple of drops= a couple of drops. Not spoonfuls otherwise you will hydraulic the motor. Turn the crank a few times manually with a breaker bar on the crankshaft pulley to circulate the oil a little and wet the bores.

After a year, it will be pretty dry under the rings and the last thing you want to do is score the bores or glaze them. Otherwise she will consume oil or blow smoke.

If you have started it and oil pressure is fine and the motor makes no funny noises, then dont worry about it. The 2h is a pretty hardy motor.

If it dosnt turn over, dont go overboard and hall like a mofo on the bar, just drop some more oil down, and leave it over night. Make sure the fuel is clean, and there is no water in the lines (run some through the hand pump into a glass jar and check its quality. Check the oil, and if it finally runs, check the pressue and if it all matchs out, think about a compressen test to see if she has any life left in it. I think if it starts, ya gonna see a bush fire out the back end

get rid of all the fuel for sure, it will be sheet. (theres a drain plug on the bottom, mihght need to drop the spare tyre.

might pay to drop 5 litres of petrol in the tank, and then dump that aswell, should clear out any algea etc.

Then as suggested by carts, a few drops of oil or even better a short squirt of 556 / wd40 etc with the nozzle on (but dont drop the freaking nozzle down there or the head will be coming off!!!). The wd40 tins with the really long nozzles (6" long) are great for this.

leave it overnight or as long as you can, then with the glow plugs still out try and turn it over by hand, i just put it in 3rd, hand brake off, then give it a gentle push. Should start to turn over quite easily, if it doesnt, a little more wd40/55-6/oil and have another crack in another few hours.

Worst case scenario you will have siezed bores.

I agree on the WD40. We used it on a astron 2.something that hadnt been started for years, and it worked great after a 2 hour soak!!

how did you go with it? Get it started???????

i cant really do a great deal with it cause it's not my car just something i was thinking of buying, it's sitting on some other dude's front lawn. And i learnt today that it was started about 6 months ago but not driven in 12 months...so half as bad as originally thought. But i will probably drop some wd40 or inox or whatever down the glow holes and check the fuel but not be replacing the whole tank. I'm off to go have a look today. So I'll report back tonight