electronic ignition?

[Piper]

Hi All

As I posted earlier, my friend and I have become self appointed re-furbishers of a Mk 2 carrier. We don't own this Carrier (the local legion does) so we don't want to spend $$ unnecessarily. The Carrier is currently in a heated bay and we're in the process of general repairs. We've drained the transmission, replaced w 80-90 wt gear oil as per the manuals, replaced oil, have pulled the plugs and added 3 or 4 ounces of diesel into each cylinder. We're in the process of replacing all the rubber rad lines, flexible trans lines, getting the exhaust manufactured. I managed to get the 4 exhaust manifold bolts off. We have new belts coming.

My questions are, before we crank this over, is there any way to run the oil pump so that the internals are lubed? This carrier has sat still since 1985. 2nd thing, while were going to replace all plugs and wires, is there an electronic ignition available vs the points, rotor, condenser?

We have a 6 v battery that's new and the starter appears to be ok. Before turning this engine over to see if it'll rotate is there anything else we should do?

Cameron