Larry, I love seeing you mobilize your energy to fight the Evil Forces of PreOiler Advocates....

and for most engines you are mostly correct... but I have a 6 cylinder gas engine 280se up front whose only problem is a knock.. either rod or pin... so these things do happen once in a while..

However, for the TURBO MB ENGINES I believe your point may be less applicable... and I may have detected the weak point in your force field...

It is this :

"As for the oil squirters in the turbo diesel MB's, they only squirt when the oil hole in the crankshaft and the oil hole in the rod bearing are lined up. This would usually not be the case, thus they would rarely squirt oil when the pre oiler is activated. Additionally, I don't think that they squirt oil on the cylinder walls, they squirt oil on the pistons for cooling purposes." --LarryBible

This is not the case according to my reading of the Factory Shop manual ( pictures to follow ).

My position is that the oil squirters start spraying at a specified oil pressure and continue in a continous fashion until that pressure is not still available from the oil pump.
I maintain that in this mode that either droplets or mist will be available to the bore liner ( just as small engines are splash lubricated ).. and so from the time the piston has made one upward movement in the bore after oil pressure has been established sufficient to open the valve that piston and ring wear will be reduced.

Thus it may be advantageous to have the oil pressure established before any turning of the crank happens on a Turbo MB engine....

PS.... For people who do not take the steel balls out of the rear of the block to clean when doing a rebuld... it is my impression that it is THIS oil system passage which is not being cleaned by that omission.