i have thought about that screening. I plan on pulling the intake off this week and yanking those screens out. But due to the way the problem was, i am still thinking something else. it sat for a couple minutes when i came off the track. when i fired it back up it still had zero pressure. the motor was 180 deg, so the oil was plenty thin. it should have had plenty of time to drain back to the pan. I have been running that expensive synthetic oil in it due to the problems. I dont know how much longer the budget can aford to dump $50 worth of oil every week. My next option is to yank this thing out for the back up motor. I would really hate to do that. This thing flat screems. if this motor wasnt so damn good i would have yanked it out weeks ago. but i want to work this out now. Keep the ideas coming please. and thank you for the replies so far. This message board seems active with some sharp guys.