What and the steps I should take to get her roadworthy again? My plan is to change the oil, new gas, new battery and change the rotors and pads. Am I missing anything obvious? Is there a way to lube the motor before I crank it? Should I be using any additives to the oil or gas?

 

I don’t think you would need much besides gas, oil, and a battery, assuming it ran just before it was parked. Check the tires and fill them with air.

 

You can flood mode before starting (press gas pedal to the floor when starting) or remove the fuel pump fuse to give it a spin before it actually starts. Hand cranking the engine from the crank bolt is an option but kind of a PITA and only truly necessary IMO if you suspect the engine is locked up.

Personally, I'd put a new air filter, oil filter, and fresh oil in it. If it needs a battery, a battery of course. Personally, I'd just fill the tank with new gas mixed with a healthy dose of Seafoam or injector cleaner and let it run out the old gas in the lines (might not run well until it gets fresh gas). You could opt to flush the lines of the old gas by priming the pump (before starting) with the gas line disconnected but pumping flammable liquids into the engine bay isn't my favorite thing to do. I've seen a few people get a surprise engine fire from being frivolous doing things like that. You could suck out the old gas from the tank... wouldn't be a bad idea. Whatever is in the lines will likely pump through quite quickly anyway -- this ain't a NASCAR with cheater 1-gallon fuel lines.

Once it's running, I'd drive it maybe 50-100 miles, then change the oil and filter again just so you wash out anything that the now flowing oil and running engine cleaned out. Then I'd do another oil/filter change after another 1,000 miles. Probably overkill but... I'd be using the cheapest 5W30 for this anyway.

If you feel frisky, you might run an oil system cleaner after that first oil change... but as long as this particular engine has gotten oil changes regularly you probably don't need to.

Also... new tires.

 

check serpentine belt, wiper blades

 

Thanks for the input. I'll be doing an oil and filter change this weekend. There wasnt much gas in it, the low gas light was on when it was parked. Probably just top it up with some seafoam.

 

That's not good actually, you always want to store a car totally full of gas or TOTALLY empty of it....hopefully nothing varnished/seized

 

Oh it's varnished. But a little gas in the tank will be diluted with good gas (go to Shell, get a full tank of 93 from there). It'll run like crap off the old gas in the line but hopefully spits it through the system and starts collecting the good stuff. Again, you can drain the tank through the pump by disconnecting a fuel pressure line but that's just not something I personally choose to sign up for as gas - even old gas - can make fires easily. Don't top the entire tank with Seafoam, haha. Full it up, put the Seafoam or some other injector/fuel system cleaner like Chevron's and do that a few more tanks. Just to clean the thing out.