At 06:14 PM 8/26/02 -0500, you wrote:
>1984, stops running after a few minutes.  Periodic nasty click-thud.
>I drained the oil and then took off the oil filter.  No oil in it at
>all.
>The oil level was right.  Is it a defective oil filter?

No oil in the filter at all? I'm thinking that there's got to be something
terribly wrong with your oil pump, the pick-up tube or where the
filter/cooler are mounted there is some sort of obstruction?
I think you're going to have to start tearing into your oil pump...  Maybe
first, with the oil filter off, hold a glass jar up over the open filter
nipple while someone cranks the engine for 5 seconds.  If you're not
getting any oil flow there is something really bad happenning. I expect you
don't want to be running the engine at all, if those 5 seconds don't show
some flow.