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I love your suggestions for this. Lots of fun, extra tension, a little extra variety, but the piece de resistance is the oil crew trudging up the chute when the sleds suddenly come barreling down the pipe. I think players would LOVE the visual there. Awesome...More than just three sleds chase the PCs - as many as the DM wants. But the twisting, turning sled runs mean only two or three have line of sight to the PCs at any one time.
Instead of the (rather unlikely) "natural oozing" of oil on the one stretch, try this: The runs need to be greased occasionally, and this boring drudgework gets foisted onto the weakest (lowest-level) orcs. So two lvl-1 orcs are trudging slowly up one of the runs, one toting a big cask of oil strapped to his back, the other dipping a mop in the open cask and swabbing the run behind him as they go. Suddenly they hear a screeching noise... WHAM! oil and orc bits everywhere!
I can so see the movie visuals for that:
Two orcs trudging their way up a darkened tunnel, mopping the oil on the surface behind them. Suddenly they look down at their feet...
CUT to the pebbles at their feet vibrating enough to be seen...
CUT to one of the orcs scratching his head in a puzzled manner. A high-pitched screetching noise starts to grow louder and more piercing. The orcs suddenly look up tunnel.
CUT to a shot from behind the orcs looking up tunnel as the shaman's cart suddenly, thunderously whips around a curve and into view, sheets of sparks flying off the runners, underlighting the Brazen Juggernaut, while adventures and firey orcs battle each other and to stay on the sled!