[Terry M. Hunt]

In the near future I’ll start the rebuild of the engine from my 66 GTO. This will be my fourth engine rebuild, but the last one was 12 years ago, so I don’t do this often enough for the process to be second nature. I rely on my factory shop manuals to guide me through the process and I recently bought Rocky Rotella’s book on rebuilding Pontiac V8 engines so I’m sure I can succeed again. There are a couple of issues that I’d appreciate some input on.
There are steps in the short block assembly process where the crank needs to be rotated. It would seem this would deplete the assembly lube on the bearings. Why is this not a problem?

After the engine assembly is complete, how long is it safe to wait to do the first start up? I’m concerned about all the prelube draining off over time.