ninety9ta

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I changed my oil the other day and as I was draining the used oil into a waste container, I noticed tiny specs of metal at the bottom of the drain pan. They were about the size of a grain of salt, and probably a total of 15. The car is running fine, no over heating or weird noises coming from it. Also, the last time I changed my oil I found two shards of metal probably a little shorter then the length of a dime, and about a centimeter or two wide. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really hope I don't have some major damage here or some possible breakage in the future.
thanks
-Alex

HeapaShifter

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Bearings?

staringback05

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bearings is a good bet, those usually have the tendacy to chafe or get rubbed....ive spun bearings before and had to get a new motor....u can either 1 drop your pan and your main caps and see whats going on....ALOT OF WORK...or just monitor the situation and see if it keeps doing it, i dont like the sound of the dime sized stuff

Blk97WS6

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that doesnt sound good

Gun5

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not good i had some little salt pieces but i just did my first 300 mile change for break in of the 355 .. id drop ur pan and look before u go snapping ****

02 BLK WS6

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Ouch!!! Doesn't sound good....

CASHss99

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Pictures?

ninety9ta

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I'll try to take pics tomorrow, I didn't clean out the drain pan so it should still be there. The shards from the previous oil change were a little shorter then the length of a dime, not the size of a dime. Either way it can't be good. Now Im pretty nervous, should I go ahead and start saving up for a new motor? lol. Thanks guys.

Ima get mines

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Probably just the bearings rubing on the crank, could this be signs of crank walk or just alot of high rpm use?

Bill's 02 Z-28 SS

Hi Folks
what is your oil pressure - good or bad? Has it changed over the last oil change? That is what I would look at.
Thanks
Bill

Ima get mines

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Not meaning to hijack your thread but I also found something scary while changing my oil yesterday. These little rods (magneticly stuck to my drain bolt) were in my oil pan



Theres about 5 or 6 of them in there and thats it. I dont know where in the motor they could've come from Unless its an axle for a roller lifter or roller rocker I have no idea. It cant be an axle because there to small imo. The car runs fine except for the bad lifter I think it has. What is it?!

ninety9ta

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My oil pressure is fine, everything seems to be running normal. Although I hear a minor tick coming from the engine that Im not sure if it was always there before.

A-Dub

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Time to change your rockers, those are the needle bearings for the rocker shafts.

Ima get mines

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Are you sure? And where exactly on the rocker arm, or rocker shaft are these located? Can somebody give me a visual? Will it dammage my engine to drive around with messed up rockers? The car seems to run fine right now.

Ima get mines

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I think I figured out where they are,

here right?


Hopefully your right, has anyone experienced rocker arm failure like me?

z28_n_tx

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here ya go

http://ls1howto.com/index.php?article=21

A-Dub

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You got it, go do a search in the internal engine forum, tons of discussion on stock rocker failure

Ima get mines

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Thanks for the info guys! I'm still running stockers on a T-Rex cam so i'll be bolting some roller rockers on this weekend.

staringback05

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if you break down the engine and no bearings have spun, you can just go back and polish the crank and get new bearings, if you find that a bearing has spun..........new motor my son....but look on the bright side, this is the perfect time to get that 402 youve been waiting for lol

Old Geezer

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Cut the filter open. Use a tin snips, or a filter cutter, to make sure the "junk" you may see, is not due to the cutting process.