what broke? Help please
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Staging Lane
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what broke? Help please So I change my oil yesterday and I pull the drainplug only to find about 8-10 rollers from some needle bearings on my drainplug. I am thinking broken lifter but I am praying a rocker arm. Either way I need to pull the motor apart and get all the little rollers out of my oil or they are going to get into my pickup tube and bye bye motor correct haha, or will the screen on the pickup tube keep them out
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From: BFE
Originally Posted by Dan_the_C5_Man
Don't panic, it's the rockers. No need to pull the motor apart, 99.9% of the time they will find their way to the oil pan w/o an issue. Replace the rockers asap. 
Better trunions and no more spills.
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Staging Lane
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yep it was a rocker arm I am just going to replace the broken one right now because my friend has a spare but the side of it on the shaft had broken open and the needles fell out only on one side of the rocker arm though so I sure hope the pickup screen caught the pieces of the rocker arm otherwise new shortblock here I come
