alphatarget1
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- Dec 9, 2001
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Huh? What oil buildup? If that car has sat for 16 years, oil buildup is not what you're going to find in the cylinders.....what you'll find are absolutely dry cylinder walls, dry crank bearings, dry camshaft bearings, dry valve lifters, dry everything. Every drop of oil has long since been pulled down into the crankcase from gravity.....start that engine without any prep work and you'll give it years of wear in just a few seconds.
I doubt the cylinder walls or whatever you mentioned will be "absolutely dry". A thin film of oil should still be present on the surface. Once you start the car up, assuming the oil pump work and you have (hopefully you would've changed the oil already) fresh oil in the sump, it shouldn't be TOO big of a deal.