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Old Jan 20, 2013 | 08:45 PM
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So I changed my oil a couple weeks ago and found metal in my oil alot of fine shaving . So I changed the oil went 1000 miles on the oil change got some rod bearing and dropped the oil pan pulled them all and didn't find a thing wrong there was metal all in the pan its not magnetic metal oil pressure is at 40 at idle does any one have any idea what it could be from ?
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Old Jan 20, 2013 | 08:55 PM
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How many miles on motor? Have you done anything to it recently? How long since the cam was installed?
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Old Jan 20, 2013 | 08:57 PM
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Non-magnetic and lots of it? Might have scratched a cam bearing when you installed it. Did you use lots of assembly lube and go slowly?
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Old Jan 20, 2013 | 09:02 PM
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Cam has 10k on it I haven't done any thing recently. Truck has 130k on it , yea I used alot of assembly lube and went slow. How hard is it to replace the cam bearing
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Old Jan 20, 2013 | 09:09 PM
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If oil pressure is good you dont have a bearing problem. Is the metal dark or light in color?
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Old Jan 20, 2013 | 09:13 PM
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The metal was light in color
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Old Jan 20, 2013 | 10:08 PM
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Do any one have a clue
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Old Jan 20, 2013 | 10:52 PM
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Sounds like babbit, the cam bearings sometimes do fail but oil pressure stays decent. Found that the hard way on my first cam swap.
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Old Jan 20, 2013 | 10:59 PM
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I have no clue
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Old Jan 21, 2013 | 07:01 AM
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If it light in color it aluminum or maybe bearing but the silver part of the bearing are thin. I would pull the engine and inspect if you have alot of metal.
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