I did temporarily plumb in a oil pressure gauge a year ago. What did it tell me? Exactly what the idiot light was telling me. When fully warm, it was showing a range of about 25-60 psi depending on the RPM (idiot light OFF). When I went around a corner it would dip to 0-15 for half a second (idiot light ON for a moment) before building back quickly above 25 (idiot light OFF). After that, I wasn't so worried, which is why it took me a while to fix it.
Dan - sorry to to offend you by wasting $35 on oil for a fresh rebuild. There was the first batch of oil, then I changed at 500 and then 1500 -- maybe overkill, but I wanted to treat it nicely during the break in period. From now on its every 3000, sir.
Dude I've learned so much from your posts over the years that I'd never fault you for a mistaking a /6 thread for a 318 thread. Either way, I didn't get a new pan -- just used the old one.
