Hello, I have found a low mileage 2.0L engine with only 30'000km but it has not been running in 13 years. What would be the best lubricant for the cam lobes and rockers to protect them from a dry start? I plan on removing the spark plugs and cranking the engine to prime the oil system, since I can see no other way. Any ideas are appreciated.

Being far from the expert around here, but I would think pull off the valve cover and just pour the oil in, then replace the cover with a new gasket. That way the oil is covering all the lobes while you prime it.

Remember those Slick 50 commercials from about 20 years ago that would tell you the most damage done to a motor is every time you start the car? The flaw in their theory was that even back then, as long as you changed your oil regularly and used a quality oil, there would always be enough molecules "sticking" to the parts until the oil in your pan got to the top of the engine.

So really, I'm kinda wondering if you really need to do anything at all, and if you feel the need or others here with more knowledge than I have say you should do something, I would think removing the valve cover would give you all the access you need to cover those lobes in oil before starting the motor.

1) Sweet Engine!!!
2)Pull that cover and oil it, thats all you should need. My 84 sat for 8 years and started with no problem.

So Wayne, I did Slick 50 back in the day, wonder if there is any of that still hanging around my engine...

Probably the only thing that might be left is the little sticker they gave you for your window, if you used it.

Lewis....from the picture, it appears that the cam cover has already been off. Those two screens on the right, laying there, are the breathers for oiling mist in cover. If you replaced them, good, but if you left them out, put them back into cover again! Most times they are clogged with gunk/varnish deposits... soak them overnight in paint thinner, will come out like new.

The question you always hate to have asked: who put the red cam cover on engine and turbo intake? Looking at the block, it doesn't have the turbo oil drain threads tapped into the block. Now "if" you put tape over the hole when you painted the engine, perfect ! Otherwise, it's not a turbo engine/block, and should you try to throw some boost at her... broken internal parts.

Better to find out now, than have a big mess & bill looking at you later.

If your not familiar with where the hole should have been & tapped....... triangular mounting section, the flywheel side of the last bolt hole. Just below that hole is an inverted "U" shaped pad, just above the oil pan rail. That's where the drainback hole should be located.

Good luck with your project and YES it's a sweet looking engine !

Alan

Good eye Alan, yes it is a 93 block with the forged pistons and rods from a turbo engine, and those breathers on the ground were just replaced with clean ones.
I do have another 2.0 waiting to take this ones place if it goes boom, so I'm not too concerned about boosting it really, as long as I have some fun driving it.

When my project is finished I will be sure to post'em up, it can get a little boring around here sometimes.