* Spinedoc, how did this turn out? Did you find oil pump, oil-line fitting, or oil circuit damage? Or was it a bad sender, gauge, or somebodies imagination?
* And the "huge klacking" was from what, if not from oil pressure loss? Piston slap from cylinder/piston skirt scoring of a fuel-washed cylinder, disintegrating bushing?
* Please follow up with this and bring it to a conclusion. I and several others who contributed to your interesting questions would like to know the outcome. What I'm upset about is the situation that the issues were solved and those solutions are not being posted. No further posting presumably means that noone knows what the figg is going on and the car is sitting in the parking lot with most of the engine in the trunk! And even that situation ought to be posted as a conclusion.
* One of the weaknesses of this forum is that concluding or "fixed" posts are not required. The paid subscriber tech sites REQUIRE a concluding/fixed post to end a thread or the member is suspended!!
* I got that off my chest. Sorry for using your thread as an example.