teknome, you are a man after my own heart, a bit of mechanical sympathy seems unlikely to hurt after a lay-up. there is little to chill the blood more than to listen to the rattle in an old engine just fired up after lay-up, seeming to take forever until the oil pressure has time to build... In the few car engines I have built, even though I lubed the load bearing parts during the build, I still would run them on the starter with the plugs out until the oil pressure registered on the gauge, or the oil warning light went out, prior to firing it up..
On my mid 80`s +8 the fuel pump relay is switched through the oil pressure switch, thus for those who want to just jump in and go after lay up..... chances are that they may be going nowhere for to get going, chances are that the fuel in the carb bowls will have evaporated somewhat, the time taken to spin the engine till oil pressure builds while cranking the engine taking ever more out of the battery which may also have suffered during lay up... to then finally bring in the fuel pump via it`s relay which will take more time to fill the carb bowls up...what chance the spark might be somewhat weak as the battery voltage may have dropped considerably during all that cranking...?
Modern oils and engineering tolerences may well have together have reduced the chances of rattle at start up after lay up... But.. ?
