How do you prime the oil pump?

hemijoejr said
I did this with my car before I installed the relocation kit on it. There are 2 pipe plugs that are on the top of the oil filter adapter in the block. One on top, one on the bottom. You have to check but I think the top one comes directly from the oil pump to the oil filter. I removed the plug, Installed a fitting, attached a lenght of hose and a funnel to it. Remove a spark plug from each cylinder. Hold the funnel up, put fresh oil in the funnel, and turn the engine BACKWARDS (CCW from the front) with a socket on the damper retaining bolt. You should be able to watch the oil go down in the funnel. When the funnel is empty, remove the hose and the fitting and re install the pipe plug and the spark plugs. Crank the starter, your oil pump will now be primed and you will get almost instant oil pressure. Fire her up!!!:burnout:

That's good news, this thread just came up pretty much the day after I buttoned up the front end on my engine, lol. Priming the engine had crossed my mind, but I figured I'd just crank it over with no spark or gas and hope for the best. Was thinking about trying to funnel some oil backward though the holes when I saw this thread come up and glad to hear that's a possibility.

Also, just checked my ports and it looks like the bottom one goes to the outer ring of the filter which would be straight from the oil pump I believe. Shined a flashlight up through it and could see the light easy from the port on the side.