I'm just finishing the rebuild on an 83 258. Had about 100K on and looked like some filled the top of the valve train with coffee grinds. Pittsburgh Crankshaft did all of the machine work and I can't recommend them highly enough. It was cleaned, decked and bored 0.030 over. Crank ground and new rods and pistons. Head was also decked and competely cleaned. Now whats the best way to prime the oil pump before start up. I have heard of disconnecting the coil and just letting the engine turn over until the pressure comes up. This seems like the pistons would run withpout oil for a awhile. Any suggestions appreciated.

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Dont know about 258's
With Chevy I had a old distributer shaft I ground the teeth off the gear. Put that in a drill and ran it till I got pressure

If your 83 is like my 98 4.0L, just stick a fat screwdriver down into the distributor hole, engage the oil pump, and turn it a whole bunch of times. If you want to get fancy, rig up some sort of tool that you can run with a cordless drill and go to town.

The short of it; remove the distributor and shaft and have a looksee down the hole. You'll see what needs to be done.

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$0.89 screwdriver from the local Big Lots type place with the handle cut off works great.

screw driver works thats what I used on my 258.:smokin:

I thinlk that we've reached a consensus. Screwdriver method will be tried. :D :D

I'm happy to see you used a nice AMC blue on your mill instead of that dark Ford blue ... it shows class! :smokin: