#picture# What Is This In My Oil Pan!!
08-07-2005, 12:17 PM
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#picture# What Is This In My Oil Pan!! Motor is out and i found this in the bottom of my oil pan..i cant find out where it came from..its not a ring..it bends too much at a 90 degree to be that..that it was out of a lifter but they look good...? anyone...
sorry for the crappy pics..it was hard as hell to get a decent pic of it..
matt
sorry for the crappy pics..it was hard as hell to get a decent pic of it..
matt
08-07-2005, 02:04 PM
#3
here is a little better pic..you can zoom in and check it out...
whatever it is it is 4 sided..you can definately see the way it was cast that it has sides and looks like some sort of shaft..but the shape of it is what gets me..it 90's to sharp to be anything that was round..it looks exactly like one of those clips that hold the lifter together..i found one that the retaining spring i was refeffing to was messed up..it looked like it had come loose a little bit but it was still there and didnt look broke...
matt
whatever it is it is 4 sided..you can definately see the way it was cast that it has sides and looks like some sort of shaft..but the shape of it is what gets me..it 90's to sharp to be anything that was round..it looks exactly like one of those clips that hold the lifter together..i found one that the retaining spring i was refeffing to was messed up..it looked like it had come loose a little bit but it was still there and didnt look broke...
matt
08-07-2005, 02:06 PM
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oh yes sorry..it is silver bright silver..but it is no bearing as in rod bearing or so forth..isnt shaped right..has to be part of some type of retaing clip or spring or something..i done checked the rod and cam bearings they are fine..i did have the machine shop mill the heads..maybee they left something in one of them and it fell to the bottom of the pan i dont know..
08-07-2005, 09:17 PM
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See if it sticks to a magnet, determine if it is aluim. or steel. If it does not stick to a magnet it is probaly a shaving from the heads being milled. It looks like in the pics that is a shaving. The clips in the lifters are thin round type wire and they are steel.
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08-07-2005, 11:24 PM
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yes that was my first guess was a heli-coil knockout but ive never helicoiled anything on the motor..ill bet i picked it up from the engine shop..they prolly helicoil uncounted numbers of **** a day.. im going to say problem solved..my first guess was helicoil due to the way it was bent..that sharp bend looks exactly like a helicoil "knockout" ill bet those asswipes at the machine shop did it..oh well at least it was hanging out in the bottom and not scuffing up anything...
