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Hope your engine is okay... What year? 2005?

 

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Hose probably came off an oil cooler.

If your car was bone dry of oil, chances the oil pump gears survived are low.

 

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Never had an oil-pump failure myself.. but I imagine you'd be hearing some.. clunking... and metal on metal sounds.

Might also be worthwhile to take off your valve cover and taking a look at your camshafts while you're at it.

If the oil-pump has gone, pretty sure you will need to remove the engine.

 

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Disconnect battery, pull fuelpump fuse, disconnect sparkplug wires, fill car with oil, open the bleed valve (little nozzle right in front of the circled connection), crank car for 20-30 seconds, check oil, fill as needed.

Listen for metal noises.

(To get rid of most of what air might have made it into your oil lines/coolers)

 

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Oh.. and was the -brass- fitting loose, or was the other fitting just not screwed tightly to it?

 

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Just the nut on there, not the brass portion that directly screws into the sandwich plate.

I read about your story, you seem to be the go to guy on plate matters lol.

Thanks again.

Didn't even know sandwich plates existed till I encountered my problem. rotfl

 

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Not sure what you mean by "white dust".. but the red "dust" on the coils could be that your spark-plugs weren't completely torqued(gasses escaping), or could be a bit of water made it down, and it's a fine layer of surface rust from the sparkplug... plug.

The rubbing might happen over time if it was a little too tight, doesn't sound like a major concern?