That video is pretty good, you don't need an air compressor, just 3' of cheap cloth rope, twirl it in the open spark plug hole then rotate the engine by hand until the piston comes up and jambs against the valves.....

Before you do that I highly suggest you personally checking the spark plug gaps as they're always too narrow out of the box and your HEI should easily work .045" gaps......

More spark = better combustion .

My old 1976 GMC pickup burned so much oil it fouled the spark plugs in 200 miles, after sharply tuning it and opening the plug gaps it _flew_ through the SMOG test ~ so clean in fact they had me bring it to a "TEST ONLY" SMOG station when once again it easily passed .

Here in California the holy grail is anything 1974 and older .

In pickups it's the short beds .

OI agree, if you like it DON'T SCRAP IT .

I didn't bother asking about that old van because I didn't want the damn thing, not even free .

I have to be careful as too many want me to tow away any old dead vehicle .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
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I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better