Another thing that puzzles me about this is why the oil is so dark looking. I change it WAY more than any normal person would do, and just had it changed a few weeks ago. Even looking at the oil going from the return pump through that hose I checked, it looks real dark to me, even though it was fresh oil put in TODAY.
Oh, another odd point. The STS system has an alarm that is supposed to trigger if that oil pump fails. It appears that it was not working, at least not in that lower setting, and yet there was never any alarm sounded. So how can that be?
Not sure how much flatbedding it down to Sefner would cost. I may see if STS would authorize a local shop to do the repair if they can walk the tech through doing the work. I doubt they would foot the bill for the flatbed, and I'm not real happy about that expense potentially coming out of my pocket.
I'm just glad I wasn't in the middle of nowhere when this happened. Otherwise I would have been hoofing it when the crankcase ran out of oil.