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Originally Posted by Grumpy old man
Omg , just get a good battery and a clean fuel source and try to start the dang thing , you'll go nuts just getting to that point listening to way too many online mechanics . The trucks reasonably clean stop driving yourself over the edge and start it , let it idle for a few minutes and THEN , shut it down and move on to step 2 . This thread is a month old it only takes 15 minutes to find out if it will run  |
^^^This too^^^^^
The old '71 K5 I bought had been sitting for years...........I checked the oil, cut the fuel line hose and stuck it down into a small gas can, ran a hot wire straight from the battery to the HEI, hooked up my remote start switch down at the starter, dumped a little gas in the carb, and fired it up.