If you pull the fuel pump, I bet with a mirror maybe you could see a couple cam lobes to see if they are still coated with that sticky cam stuff and decide to either be brave or pull the cam and recoat it. An easy 5-minute check if it works!
Again, if you can do a leakdown (or even just shoot compressed air into each cylinder) you could see if the valves are open/closed without cranking it too much. Compression test is a lot of cranking!
