Mopar Guy With a Ford Question

In my opinion that engine had sat for a long time without running, they never changed the oil or cleaned the pan ever and you now have the goo, kinda like syphalis. haha! On a serious note, I had a similar issue with an Olds years ago. Pulled the pan, clean it out and cleaned the oil pick up off. After I did mine it ran fine and no more problems. I was running a risk that I was going to make a bad situation worse but all was fine.