These threads are always amusing (if it's not your car!)

Tearing the engine down and found these in the oil pan. Having trouble identifying what they are. Haven't gotten the rods out yet to investigate further.

http://home.comcast.net/~saccani/DSC02081.JPG

 

can't tell but it looks expensive

 

Good answer.

It's pretty thin metal. It's not what I thought a bearing would look like, but I can't think what else it would be. Major destruction like this is new to me.

 

Windage tray, roller lifter spyder(guide), oil pump pickup......?

Doug

 

i agree, it looks to be a windage tray or spyder. im curious to know what they are also. i cant think of how a spyder could get chewed up like that.

 

yep i'd say windage tray.

 

looks like a piston ring >?

 

if he's got the pan off he'd know if it was the windage tray though.

 

Whatever it is, there's a shredded piece of it stuck between the number 3 rod & the crank:
http://home.comcast.net/~saccani/DSC02101.JPG

And is this what the windage tray looks like. Is it just a single piece of formed metal? No bottom piece to it or anything?
http://home.comcast.net/~saccani/DSC02102.JPG

 

the windage tray is fine. im at a loss, those peices dont really look like bearings but anything is possibe. keep us informed

 

there peices from the rod and main berrings im almost 100% positive

 

About how big are the pieces in the first pic. I cant really get a good perspective. Maybe you could put a ruler next to them or something.

 

yep from looking at that pic your rods and your crank are shot. plan on replacing the crank becuse if a motor chews up the berings liuke that the crank will be to far out of spec to be fixable

 

I really dont think that could be a bearing. If it was a bearing, that motor would absolutlely have thrown a rod, or something horrific. I think it may be a Lifter Spyder.

The piece on the far right of the first pic, does look like a piston ring, but I think that may actually be a piece from the lifter as well that got bent to a suprisingly circular shape.

Did you notice the little pieces stuck on the screen of the oil pic up? When you rebuild that motor, dont let anything go unchecked. You definatly need to flush the oil passages all out before reassembly. Although any reputable shop will clean the parts after they repair/rebuild for you.

 

Definitely a bearing. Must have been making quite a racket.