Metal chunks in oil pan..

[McLeod Crouch]

Yeah so found these in the oil pan.. any ideas? truck was running fine. The brownish parts are plastic it feels like. The others are metal i believe.

 

[McLeod Crouch]

Here’s another picture.

 

[Rocket Man]

Whoa that’s not good.

 

[McLeod Crouch]

Whoa that’s not good.

lol yeahh im thinking the big one is a bearing maybe? I don't know

 

[fire730]

Plastic is probably the timing chain tensioner. Metal maybe from the VVt actuator or from the tensioner too.

Best guess although I’ve never seen this happen on an LS.

Running bad or any CEL? Did you remove the pan already?

Looks like you need to pull the front timing cover.


Sorry I see that you answered some of this in the first post. But I still think you are pulling the timing cover.

 

[BG1988]

Yeah so found these in the oil pan.. any ideas? truck was running fine. The brownish parts are plastic it feels like. The others are metal i believe.

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it's too late for a magnet

 

[wsteele]

Definitely looks like some of the parts might be from the timing chain tensioner.

 

[McLeod Crouch]

Plastic is probably the timing chain tensioner. Metal maybe from the VVt actuator or from the tensioner too.

Best guess although I’ve never seen this happen on an LS.

Running bad or any CEL? Did you remove the pan already?

Looks like you need to pull the front timing cover.


Sorry I see that you answered some of this in the first post. But I still think you are pulling the timing cover.

No it was running fine no lights. Ive never pulled the pan before, i just bought it about 5000 miles ago.

 

[89Suburban]

 

[Fless]

I kinda wonder if there was an issue with the timing chain and they fixed that, but never pulled the oil pan to clean it. Would be interesting to see what the timing chain and tensioner look like.