Ok, update time.
I got the car up in the air. and started pulling stuff apart before a friend got here this morning. He got here, we got the engine supported with the cherry picker and after one broken socket (replaced with a good impact socket) we had the K-member off. Pulled the oil pan,
GOOD NEWS... NO MAJOR METAL in the pan, no brass, nothing out of the ordinary.
BAD NEWS... I feel like this day was honeestly a waste. We pulled the pickup tube, and oil pump, inspected and didnt see anything out of the ordinary. Put the pickup tube down in a bucket of water and spun it over with a cordless drill and oil pump driveshaft. Water flowed in full stream with no restrictions what so ever.
Basically after MUCH diagnosis my friend and I feel like without the engine running, only spinning over with the starter turning it the oil pump the pump does not spin fast enough to pump oil to the filter / rest of the engine.
What we think needs to happen now is again,, re-install the pump, pan and pickup that was on the motor, spin the pump IN the engine with a modified shaft and see if it will pump pressure to the motor.
The oil that cane out of the motor was clean, no major chucks, no bearing material. Assuming all works well with the pump re-installed I am stuck with the delima of.. leaving the parts that were on the engine in place.. or replace the entire deal (pan, pickup, pump, and dipstick ) with new parts I ordered last week. I can leave the stock style pan and pickup on and send this other stuff back and save 250 bucks.. or I can install the new parts and have piece of mind of a new higher cap oil pan..
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