Help me get my Car Running. (Lotsa troubleshooting inside)

[JeremyG]

SOHC motor on an '89 been sitting for 2.5 years.

Gas tank was almost empty.. gauge read empty and tapping on bottom I couldn't hear any liquid up there. I put 3 gal of 92 octane in there.

Before trying to turn over, I removed plugs and they aren't bad, a bit carbon-y but useable enough to get the car running.

Changed oil and filter. Old oil wasn't chunky or anything but very black. Filter had about 50 small flakes of copper-looking metal in it (yeah, not good I know). Each flake was less than a millimeter in size.

I also put a bit of oil in each cylinder and then hand-cranked the engine about 6 revolutions. Then I cranked with the spark plugs out for about 10 seconds. Oil presure light was on for 2 seconds then shut off, I believe that means I'm getting oil pressure.

Put the plugs/wires (yes, correct wiring!) back in. It wont' start. Has no sign of even starting to fire. Turning over nicely, just not starting.

So I pulled a plug, hooked the wire back on and cranked engine. YES there's a spark.

Noticed the o2 sensor wire was unplugged (well I noticed SOME wire was unplugged and with the help of J SPEC SilEighty realized it was the o2 wire)

Tried again, about 5 tries of 5-8 second cranks each... nothing. No difference.

So I decided to pull a fuel line. I unhooked the one that comes out of the TOP of the filter (at least I assume that canister near the passenger side wheel well is the filter?) and there's NOTHING in it. I would think that there'd be some pressure and some fuel up in there?

So I'm thinking fuel problem.

I did notice that when I put the key on "run" (2 clicks) there's no selenoid sound and no light hum from the fuel pump. I know on my Stealth the pump "primes" for about 1 second when you do that. Is this car supposed to do that?

So what's my next (easiest?) step??

I would assume I should pull the fuel hose out from UNDER the filter and see if there's fuel there. If so, it would be a clogged filter.

If no fuel there? Clogged lines from old gas? Bad pump?

I did pull the fuel pump cover out of the trunk and it looks almost exactly like on my Stealth (matter of fact I was told a Stealth pump would replace the 240sx pump). So I could pull the pump and check that out.

Any advice?