Twisted636

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i changed my oil yesterday and i found about 5 or 6 needle bearings in my oil pan they came out when i drained the oil. the car still runs and sounds fine but what the hell where did they come from id like to get it taken care of before something bad happens. any ideas on where it came from my guess would be rocker arms but how did it make it all the way in the oil pan with out causing some damage?

SOMbitch

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99.9% chance they came from the rocker arms... Pull your valve covers and see if any are on top of the head and get them out. Time to order a Comp trunion upgrade kit or send them off to Harland Sharp for a rebuild.....

Twisted636

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Twisted636

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do you think its safe to drive in the men time. what kinda rockers should i go with im kinda on a budget

SOMbitch

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Yes those are from the rockers and no I wouldn't drive it. Get them rebuilt/upgraded per post #2. Here>>>> http://www.compcams.com/information/...ionupgrade.pdf

Or send them to Dennis>>>>> https://ls1tech.com/forums/sponsor-s...m-upgrade.html

I have some UNREBUILT stockers that are good I will sell for $50 + shipping but honestly your best bet is to rebuild them and never worry about it again.....

Twisted636

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how much do you think it would cost to have the new ones put in? also besides inside the valve cover and oil pan any other place these things might of landed. my car is parked untill i get this taken care of.

well im looking at ls1howto and it looks kinda easy i dont think it would be to hard to change my self. but iv never tryed before if anyone knows how hard it is let me know i dont wanna start on something thats gonna be way over my head

THE SHOP

Very easy to do.

Twisted636

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found the problem. bad news is didnt find the other bearings for it so i guess they are all in the oil pan any other place i should look for them at iv not removed all the rockers yet so im not 100% there are not some in there but didnt see any at first glance. but it was the very back rocker

gm02ceta

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With having no codes thrown and the car seemly running fine I'd be real leary of running it if you can't find every part that fell out. I wonder what could have caused it to fail?

myk

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Wow that really sucks. If you haven't done it already, you should drop the pan and rotate the engine by hand-some of those bearings are probably hung up on the rotating assembly and should fall out...

Twisted636

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yeah thats what im gonna do next once i get more time to work on it. im guessing i have to remove the ypipe to get the oil pan off? if so sounds like a good time to go on and put the headers on too lol

1QWIKBIRD

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When this happened to me, 29 came out the drain plug and the remaining 4 were hung up in the lifter trays. I pulled the motor, the pan everything only to find them in the lifter trays. There are 33 on each side of the trunion, so 66 total per rocker arm.

Look in the valve spring real good with a mirror, then pull all the rockers and pushrods (label which ones went where) and with a magnet fish around in the lifter trays, you might get lucky.

Good news is that they will not make it through the oil pick up screen, so if they do make it to the pan, they will stay there.

Happy hunting.

Twisted636

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thanks a bunch only one side is broken i found about 6 so only 27 left to find.

Black 99 Bird

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Just wondering what year your car is and how many miles you have on it?

Twisted636

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its a 98 it has about 120k on it. i re drained my oil today i found 3 more but thats it there where none around the valves. iv not dropped the pan yet im gonna pick up a magnetic drain plug since i dont think mine is cause it didnt have any attached to it when i pulled it out.