Starting after extended time

[IDG]

I went on vacation some time ago and left my WRX sitting on my steep driveway for about one week.
When I returned and started the car it was making noise indicating that the oil was not where it needed to be. I drove slowly and after a few blocks things returned to normal and everything has been fine for about nine months.

With older cars, before fuel injection, I used to disconect the wire leading to the solonoid? so the car wouldn't turn over and the oil would be pumped up. Can you do that now or with fuel injection would you flood the engine?

How is type of thing done with fuel injection?

Thanks,
IDG


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[mark jb]

I went on vacation some time ago and left my WRX sitting on my steep

driveway for about one week.
When I returned and started the car it was making noise indicating that
the oil was not where it needed to be. I drove slowly and after a few
blocks things returned to normal and everything has been fine for about
nine months.

With older cars, before fuel injection, I used to disconect the wire
leading to the solonoid? so the car wouldn't turn over and the oil would
be pumped up. Can you do that now or with fuel injection would you flood
the engine?

How is type of thing done with fuel injection?

synthetic oil, 'castrol magnatec' or equivalent, or simply park in a flat
spot.
either way, not running it for a week is going to let most of the oil drain.

perhaps start it up, roll down to street level, and let it idle there for a
while if you have a steep driveway? wouldn't advise driving it at all if
it's making no-oil noises; even slowly. should start pumping pretty much
straight away, and putting the car on a flat surface instead of a steep
surface can only help it along.

-mark

 

[Steve Davies]

Remove Crank sensor prior to starting it up .Once removed , crank Engine to
get oil pressure up. Replace sensor and eh presto, jobs a good one.

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[Jim Stewart]

I went on vacation some time ago and left my WRX sitting on my steep driveway for about one week.
When I returned and started the car it was making noise indicating that the oil was not where it needed to be. I drove slowly and after a few blocks things returned to normal and everything has been fine for about nine months.

Normal. It's happened to me a couple of times.
Oil drains out of the lifter buckets causing
the valves to clatter outrageously.

Despite the noise I don't think it does any
damage.