I will be dropping the pan before I start her up again, so I'm not so worried about that, but thanks for the advice. I see some oil return channels that I wouldn't want to clog up.
49 Geez, yes, there is an oil line in there. Is this one that commonly gets clogged up? I don't have a compressor (yet), so I may have to wait on cleaning it. I can always just take the valve cover off when the engine is running and make sure healthy doses of oil are squirting up there, right?