Starting after extended time

synthetic oil, 'castrol magnatec' or equivalent, or simply park in a flat spot. either way, not running it for a week is going to let most of the oil drain.

perhaps start it up, roll down to street level, and let it idle there for a while if you have a steep driveway? wouldn't advise driving it at all if it's making no-oil noises; even slowly. should start pumping pretty much straight away, and putting the car on a flat surface instead of a steep surface can only help it along.

-mark

Remove Crank sensor prior to starting it up .Once removed , crank Engine to get oil pressure up. Replace sensor and eh presto, jobs a good one.

for about one week.

oil was not where it needed to be. I drove slowly and after a few blocks things returned to normal and everything has been fine for about nine months.

Normal. It's happened to me a couple of times. Oil drains out of the lifter buckets causing the valves to clatter outrageously.

Despite the noise I don't think it does any damage.

to the solonoid? so the car wouldn't turn over and the oil would be pumped up. Can you do that now or with fuel injection would you flood the engine?