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Question for those more knowledgeable about the direction of oil flow: from the area of the OFHG repair, does the oil flow to the filter or the engine first?

If it flows to the engine first, that would increase the plausibility of the foreign material clogging passages theory. That theory also seems to line up with the seemingly instant failures without warning, no overheating, no prior knocking, etc.

Granted, I have not performed the OFHG job yet on my car, but does the old gasket usually come off cleanly or require scraping off the gasket in chunks?