View Poll Results: DO YOU GET METAL ON YOUR OIL PAN PLUG/MAGNET
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does anyone else get fine metal on oil pan magnet?
Oct 22, 2009 | 03:35 AM
#14
Launching!
Joined: Mar 2009
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From: Bolingbrook, illinois
well. im not as kool as all you guys. i change my own oil. its a 98 silverado. never get any (KNOCK ON WOOD) fine particles on my magnet. however. i will share with you other vehicles. since i have done maybe ove a thousand oil changes so far. i work at jiffy lube. on a 97 cavalier. well. heres a pic.
http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSC00596.jpg
this is your standard GM magnet plug. the one where it gets thin at the top with a magnet tip. well. thats what came out. i got a really strong magnet on the fridge at work and as it was draining. i held it next to the flow of oil and it actually curved some. thats how much metal was there. teh cavvy came in again next month. this time a good size chunk of bearing. or maybe rod. but teh stoned *** driver kept driving it. havn't seen it in a while. wonder why...
on these newer trucks when i do the drain, i see sometimes particles on the tip. from years 01-present trucks. i would say majority of the plugs are not contaminated with particle. id say for every 5 trucks, maybe 1 is contaminated. hope this helps some. personally if i saw particle. id lose sleep on it. im the type that makes sure nothing is wrong. and yeah... hope it helps
http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSC00596.jpg
this is your standard GM magnet plug. the one where it gets thin at the top with a magnet tip. well. thats what came out. i got a really strong magnet on the fridge at work and as it was draining. i held it next to the flow of oil and it actually curved some. thats how much metal was there. teh cavvy came in again next month. this time a good size chunk of bearing. or maybe rod. but teh stoned *** driver kept driving it. havn't seen it in a while. wonder why...
on these newer trucks when i do the drain, i see sometimes particles on the tip. from years 01-present trucks. i would say majority of the plugs are not contaminated with particle. id say for every 5 trucks, maybe 1 is contaminated. hope this helps some. personally if i saw particle. id lose sleep on it. im the type that makes sure nothing is wrong. and yeah... hope it helps
Oct 22, 2009 | 03:40 AM
#15
Launching!
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 242
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From: Bolingbrook, illinois
well. im not as kool as all you guys. i change my own oil. its a 98 silverado. never get any (KNOCK ON WOOD) fine particles on my magnet. however. i will share with you other vehicles. since i have done maybe ove a thousand oil changes so far. i work at jiffy lube. on a 97 cavalier. well. heres a pic.
http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSC00596.jpg
this is your standard GM magnet plug. the one where it gets thin at the top with a magnet tip. well. thats what came out. i got a really strong magnet on the fridge at work and as it was draining. i held it next to the flow of oil and it actually curved some. thats how much metal was there. teh cavvy came in again next month. this time a good size chunk of bearing. or maybe rod. but teh stoned *** driver kept driving it. havn't seen it in a while. wonder why...
on these newer trucks when i do the drain, i see sometimes particles on the tip. from years 01-present trucks. i would say majority of the plugs are not contaminated with particle. id say for every 5 trucks, maybe 1 is contaminated. hope this helps some. personally if i saw particle. id lose sleep on it. im the type that makes sure nothing is wrong. and yeah... hope it helps
http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSC00596.jpg
this is your standard GM magnet plug. the one where it gets thin at the top with a magnet tip. well. thats what came out. i got a really strong magnet on the fridge at work and as it was draining. i held it next to the flow of oil and it actually curved some. thats how much metal was there. teh cavvy came in again next month. this time a good size chunk of bearing. or maybe rod. but teh stoned *** driver kept driving it. havn't seen it in a while. wonder why...
on these newer trucks when i do the drain, i see sometimes particles on the tip. from years 01-present trucks. i would say majority of the plugs are not contaminated with particle. id say for every 5 trucks, maybe 1 is contaminated. hope this helps some. personally if i saw particle. id lose sleep on it. im the type that makes sure nothing is wrong. and yeah... hope it helps
Oct 22, 2009 | 08:38 AM
#16
Launching!
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 286
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From: Arizona
Call me paranoid, but not do I have a magnetic tip drain plug but I also have a giant magnet on the oil filter.
I usually don't get much, if any shavings, on the plug. My theory is all of the oil doesn't pass by the drain plug but it has to go through the oil filter.
I usually don't get much, if any shavings, on the plug. My theory is all of the oil doesn't pass by the drain plug but it has to go through the oil filter.
Oct 23, 2009 | 12:22 PM
#19