Partly due to not feeling as steady as I used to be (before hospital last May/June), I still haven't gotten around to doing this oil-change or oil-pump change, but yesterday, at least, I did fit the new cork gasket to the cam cover (using bathroom silicone sealer and clamped it down lightly onto the cylinder head to set.
I also took the plugs out and spun the engine on the starter briefly to circulate some oil as the car has been standing unused in my garage now for about 19 months. Not good for it!!.
Spinning on the starter with no plugs, did not make the oil pressure gauge rise to the occasion.
so I stopped doing that pretty quick.
It's still a bit too cold here to get around to lifting the front of the car (even inside the garage) to drain the oil & put cleaning oil in etc etc (or change the oil pump) also as I don't have a car lift, its a bit of a puzzle as to how to get the front of the car up on car ramps without using the engine to drive it onto the ramps. My ramps are the fixed type, maybe I should invest in some of those low ones that can be screwed upwards
after the car wheels are on the ramps, but they are a bit expensive!
Hopefully the weather will get a bit warmer soon and I'll solve these minor lifting problems.