So how is that any different than every other engine on the planet?

It certainly doesn't take three weeks for all your oil to drain back into the oil pan after you shut it off. It doesn't even take three HOURS.

In fact, the engine in the original post would be in better shape because THAT engine at least has assembly lube slathered all over the cam.



Seriously...
Is there something I'm missing here?
Some factor I'm not considering?

 

I guess so.

 

Then tell me what it is.

You tell me...
How is the oil draining down into the pan in THIS engine any different than the oil draining down into the pan on any OTHER engine?

Unless you're advocating that I should prime my engine every morning before I go to work...?

 

Priming brings at least some oil to the bearings that never had any oil before (he states his is a brand new engine) and leaves a little residual oil in the passages. That makes it more like the engine you start every day in your driveway. That's the difference.

 

OK, I may have been misinterpreting the original post.

My entire argument had been based on the assumption that this engine HAD been primed before it left the builders.


If I am incorrect about that, if the engine has NOT been primed before; then absolutely... it should be primed with the proper tool before first starting.