Starting a pick up that has been sitting for a year .

My Kenworth sat for 10 years without running before I bought it. I #### you not, 4 new batteries and I just cranked it until it fired. Maybe 20 seconds. Didn't even hit the hand primer lol.

If the fluid levels are where they should be, I'd just start it and go.

 

A little of this in the fuel tank would help out a bunch

 

Check thermostat sometimes they rust shut. Person across street same thing changed oil, new battery headed out was not paying attention locked it up . got it too hot.

 

first, sorry about your in-law.

i'd personally drop the exhaust from the CAT back..

no way of knowing if any gasoline is in the system, with 156k on the clock, no way of knowing if it has a leaking injector, and loaded up the CAT, and one errant hot spark, and KA-BOOM goes the exhaust system.

also, especially if you add chemicals (listed by the others) into the cylinders to pre-lube them, or clean them.

 

You guys are way overthinking this........

 

we live for over-complicational thinking.....

we is afta all, "merican truck drivers...

 

what...no beer on the flight home..???

what kind of beer drinker are you...???

 

HA.

My bland and joyless existence leads me to overthink everything. Only to be upstaged by others who can do it better.

In my mind I already ran new spark plug wires, new coil, new bearings repacked, new brake lines and so on. By the time I finished fixing what aint broke on that thing the costs would be too much.

There is a art to overthinking the most simple of tasks and overdoing it beyond reason.

I once had a vehicle sit 14 months. Hopped in turned the key and she fired right up. Now the fluids did not take long in showing that they need replaced. So so much for that little run.

That was with the last of the old Sears Die Hard Battery. If you had a 1200 CCA Die hard in that engine bay you can crank God's own personal vehicle in the deepest of winter any time and she will fire. But now that sears is gone and the diehards actually died off, there is no point in trying to find a good battery as that.