Lucky??
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Lucky??
I just got through changing my oil and found something disturbing, metal! About four months ago when i adjusted the valves, i went to put my valve covers back on and i noticed one of the metal spacers where the bolt hole is was missing. I figured it must have fell off on the ground so i took the other ones out also. When i took my magnetic drain plug out there was a curved piece of metal on it about a 1/4 long. It took me while to figure out what it was. I went and got one of the other spacers and measured both with my digital micrometer. Same thickness. So it did not drop on the ground, it dropped on the head and made it's way past the valve. I've been running it for four months and have great oil pressure that hasnt changed and have 15 pass's on the engine. What do ya'll think is the worst that can happen? How could that thing have slipped through. Anyway's i've got another track meet tom, so if something happens it'll be time for some strokin. I've been flushing it with oil so hopefully i most of it out now.
#2
RE: Lucky??
I don't think I would worry unless you are finding shavings...lots of them.
And if you dropped it in the head, I am sure it didn't go past the valve, just went down the oil drain passage....maybe it got broke up on the head. Good luck anyway
And if you dropped it in the head, I am sure it didn't go past the valve, just went down the oil drain passage....maybe it got broke up on the head. Good luck anyway
#3
RE: Lucky??
Yea that sounds right. I was just thinking about how it could have made it past the valve and through the cyl walls and pastthe piston. I've run the shiat out of it since this happened so hopefully i'll be ok.
#5
RE: Lucky??
ORIGINAL: Jasperstang308
you ever get the better springs?
you ever get the better springs?
#6
RE: Lucky??
If it went into the pan via the chamber and cylinder, you'd know. You'd have a dead cylinder. The oil return holes on aftermarket alum heads are pretty decent, BUT, if it went through the front drain passages, it may have contacted the cam/dizzy gear. I'd pull the dizzy to check just in case it went through the gears and damaged them.
And yeah, DID you ever get the right springs?
And yeah, DID you ever get the right springs?
#7
RE: Lucky??
ORIGINAL: 67mustang302
If it went into the pan via the chamber and cylinder, you'd know. You'd have a dead cylinder. The oil return holes on aftermarket alum heads are pretty decent, BUT, if it went through the front drain passages, it may have contacted the cam/dizzy gear. I'd pull the dizzy to check just in case it went through the gears and damaged them.
And yeah, DID you ever get the right springs?
If it went into the pan via the chamber and cylinder, you'd know. You'd have a dead cylinder. The oil return holes on aftermarket alum heads are pretty decent, BUT, if it went through the front drain passages, it may have contacted the cam/dizzy gear. I'd pull the dizzy to check just in case it went through the gears and damaged them.
And yeah, DID you ever get the right springs?
#9
RE: Lucky??
you'll be fine cause the only way it could of gotten down there was through the oil drain back holes as 67mustang 302 states and the pick up screen would of kept the oil pump from sucking it up
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