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Originally Posted by Landseer

Indoors storage was fortuitous.

Before pulling spark plugs, use a shop vac and some sort of brush to clean around the bores as the engines seem to collect lots of sand / grit. Then used the vac with a small hose to suck out each chamber, just because. I syringed about 25ml of marvel mystery oil into each plug hole on the 32V car that sat 10 years --- made sure not to even turn the engine over before it soaked. Not sure what it did, if anything.

Most of us here are awakening cars that sat long periods of time.

Patience pays off in this project.

Lets also get it on record that you will need to change the fuel lines in the engine compartment on this car. There are 8 that are 50mm long on the injectors and 4 or 5 others in various places under air filter, and along passenger exhaust manifold that will require this. Very dangerous. Just put it on list.

Further regarding fuel system, on cars that sat this long I always empty and clean the tank, plus replace the strainer that threads to the outlet of the tank, and the small rubber hose that leads to the fuel pump. I replace the fuel pump and the fuel filter. Again, just my method. I don't even wonder if the pump works or not, I replace it and throw the old one away.

+1 Really good advise here.