priming oil pump?

[bazw]

hi all is there any way to (or do i need to) prime the oil pump an a banana ?
im teying to start mine up and working through what might be stopping it working and while looking at the rockers i noticed that there is no oil in the rocker gallery , its been cranked a good few times and no oil and the light was not going out but i was putting that down to me and the spaghetti wiring i have on frankensprinter

[Pinto]

Have you done a recent rebuild then, or has the oil suddenly dissapeared ??

If its dissapeared, you have serious pump problems !..but on a rebuild you can prime the pump by removing the face cover and packing it full of Petroleum Jelly (Vasseline)

DONT LET THE ENGINE FIRE WITH NO OIL !!!!!!! (as if you need to be told )

[bazw]

the engine has stood in a yard for an unknown time
so has drained i think
dont know all that might be wrong with it , have to start it and see
if i can get the tw*t to fire spins like any good di / banana i have seen but just smokes like an 80 a day man and does nothing . if i give it a little easy start it just turns and throws out the starter like it wants to go , think it should be called a parasetamol engine as its giving me some fine headaches

[bazw]

just had a thought , would i be able to prime the pump by injecting oil into the feed from the block to the vac pump ???

[bazw]

well putting oil into the high pressure gallerie dont work so pulled the front off today and did it the book way , what a phaff on but its done and i now have pressure