Hydraulic Roller Lifter - Pump Up?

[noreasteb]

I know this may be a stupid question but I am assembling an 89 302 HO. It has been sitting for about 5 yrs covered in my garage.
I recently installed a cam while I had it apart and am now putting it back together.
I have read that I need to "pump up" the lifter by squeezing oil into the small hole on the side of the lifter until it comes out of the top.
Could this also be achieved by manually turning the oil pump and forcing oil through the engine?
I am looking for the lazy way out as I already have most everything in place.

 

[bax]

yes prime the engine before starting it. Priming it will feed the lifters and get everything else some oil too.

 

[noreasteb]

so Bax, I do not have to remove each lifter first and hand prime as long as I manually run the oil pump prior to start up?
thanks

 

[broncnaz]

Just prime the oil sysyem more because its been sitting for 5 years than to prime the lifters as you wont really prime all the lifters anyhow. I've never heard of needing to prime the lifers usually you just soak them in some oil befroe installing at most.

 

[noreasteb]

Awsome. That was the answer I was hoping for. They were all soaked prior to re-installing. Now I can finish the valve train installation tonight.
Thanks for the help.