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Old 11-03-2019, 01:44 PM   #11
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Default Re: Mysterious chips in the oil

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Originally Posted by redmodelt View Post
I hope you were meaning 5 qts? You could have just dumped a couple of qts down the hole for the distributor. Those chips look to be brass, only brass in that area would be bushings in the distributor shaft or oil pump shaft. I would go with oil pump shaft bushing having been reamed and not cleaned out. But don't think with just turning the engine over with the starter would have carried the chips over the dam. The screen would have prevented those chips from being picked up from the pan, too big for the screen mesh. Unless you had bearings installed in the cam shaft holes, there are no bearings.
Qts./liters are close to the same. 5 liters equals 5.28 qts. So he actually has a little extra oil in there.
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