I haven't started my 1970 911T in three years! What next?

[racea911]

I tried running a search, but found nothing, but I am sure there are a few threads that go over what i need to do. I have a nice 911T that I have been storing about 20 minutes away from my house. I built a track car in the mean time, moved, and had a second child so this car went way on the back burner. Unfortunately, the car hasn't moved or been started in three years. It was leaking quite a bit of oil and i figured I would need to just have the motor rebuilt. The car ran strong and reliably though. As it turns out, the metal oil line that runs from the top, back of the engine to the bottom of the engine near the oil cooler is what was just dropping oil everywhere. So now I want to get it running again and have some fun with it.

It is a 2.2L T with Webers. What process should I go through to safely get it running again?

I plan to:
Drain the gas tank completely and put in fresh gas.
Charge the batteries.
Dump all oil and refill.

What else should I look at doing? The car was pretty well maintained before the track car came into my life and replaced it.

Thanks for any advice or for links to threads where this has already been covered.

Here's the poor, neglected car.

[zumwoll]

It's a beauty and I think you are on the right track. If you built a race car then I assume you can take the jets out of the webers, blow out the channels with lo pressure air. After replacing the jets, pump that accerator until you see no more gas being dumped in to the venturi. Then prime the fuel pump with the clean gas in the tank and you should be good to go. That is all I have ever had to do. Modern cars wiht AFMs etc are not so simply but just rember these four words----
Fuel, compression, spark, combustion. There is no crank position sensor etc etc which is why my fun cars are all old school
MIne is a 74 911 with Garrettson G60 cams, six webers, pop-up Mahle pistons, more head work than Freud has done. Faster than you average 993 yet a little tool kit and you can drive her to Terra Del Fuego--or not.

[ruf-porsche]

Remove the plugs and skirt a little oil into each cylinder, turn the engine over by hand with the plugs out. If there is any resistance you may have to skirt a little more oil or penetrating oil into the cylinder to break any rust that may have develolped in the bores.

[zumwoll]

I guess I assumed you would try to turn it by hand first. I hope the plugs come out easily enough.

[randywebb]

don't force anything - esp. the spark plugs

replace rubber brake hoses if > 10 years old

repl. brake fluid

repl. trans. oil after driving for a 300 miles

[racea911]

Ok, thanks guys. Sounds easy enough. It always sounds easy before you dive into the project.