bring her out of storage for the winter (06 obw) - your comments ?

[outbackdc]

time is fast approaching where I flip cars and bring my lovely 06 OBW out of storage for the winter. Storage = she got fuel stabilizer in a full tank, fresh oil/tuneup, tire pressure up, battery out on a tender, intake/exhausts sealed, all the "right" things that various sources prescribe.

I've already had one iteration of bringing a car (the summer one) out of hibernation, and it went well, although there was an incident with a dead ignition coil a few months later where I can't discern correlation vs. cause/effect (it's a Ford Focus with 100K so it could have been age).

My specific concern for the OBW is cranking the engine. Ford told me that after storing the Focus for 5 months, I didn't need to worry about cranking the engine with the ignition disabled to get the oil distributed, I could just turn it over. This appeared to work.

The OBW will have been stored for 7 months. Anyone who's done this or has a strong sense of what would be best, in the case of the Sub engine in particular (since it's a boxer which would change oil distribution/drainage): how critical do you think it would be to crank the engine with the ignition disabled ? If you think it's important, do you recommend a particular way to do it ? (I was going to find the right fuses/etc. to remove.)

[Wagondude]

On most OBDII cars, the engine won't start if there is no oil pressure( don't know for sure if Subaru is the same). There shouldn't be any harm in just starting it up once everything is un-sealed and the battery is back in as the oil pump will build pressure almost instantly.