First fire up after engine disassemble question

04'-XB12R

So I have had my engine out. I replaced the rocker gaskets, and cam cover/primary gaskets. I also had all the oil lines off and cleaned out the oil cooler. The swing are was powder coated and I cleaned it out very well. So everything is bone dry.

Also when the cam cover was off one of the cams worked out. I got it installed fine, but spun the engine over (pulley nut/ socket breaker bar) several times to double, triple, quadruple the marks. Of course while spinning the engine I can hear gurgling from the oil pump as the remaining oil is pumped out my removed oil line fittings.

She is dry.

Now the bike is reassembled. I prefilled the new oil filter and topped of the swingarm per manual. I connected just power and ground to the starter and jumped the soleniod to spin the motor over. I cranked it for 4-5 seconds at a time waiting a bit in between so I don't overheat the starter. All in all its been cranked over for 30 seconds or so. I thinking this should help circulate the oil well before I get the ecm plugged in and fire it up for the first time.

Does anyone have anything else I could/should do before I start it? When building car engines back in the day we always primed the oil pump before fire up. We would pull the distributor and run an oil pump drive into the pump. Then put a drill on it to spin the pump (hold on tight ).

Just though I'd ask. I think I'll be good but never hurts to ask.

I never have dont anything extra. I think what you did is plenty. It usually helps to soak the lifters in oil before assembly if they collapsed. Priming it like you did probably helped some, but it might be noisy for a bit on startup anyway.

As konarider94 said, what you did is likely sufficient.

Just FYI, my general routine after engine rebuilds is to remove the spark plugs so the engine can crank freely. With plugs removed, crank the engine for as long as you please to let the oil circulate.

Thanx guys . I just wanted to make sure the oil pump wasn't know to get air locked. Some of the car engines I worked on needed to have the oil pump primed in a certain manner or wouldn't pump. Nothing worse than starting up a fresh motor staring at the oil light that won't go off...