Oil Pressure

Titleist16

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I noticed today that as I was slowing down at a red light my oil pressure started dropping. It would drop all the way to 0 then jump back up 20 as soon as I was completely stopped. Is this normal or is it something I should be worried about?
 
This happened to my 240 once, I checked the dipstick and it showed no oil. Put 2 more quarts in, still no oil on the dipstick, put another quart in, nothing. Figured something was wrong so pulled the plug on the pan and dumped almost 7 quarts of oil out with a strong smell of gas. Turns out the fuel pump diaphram had ruptured and was leaking gas into the oil pan, daluted the oil = no oil pressure. I talked to a mechanic about it and he said I was lucky I didn't blow the oil pan off. Change the oil anyway and see if it doesn't improve the pressure.

Steve
 
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