Is this too much metal to find in the oil pan?



It is part of the oil dipstick tube that broke off when I installed the headers. It has been riding around in my oil pan for about 10 months and surprisingly enough, it appears no harm has been done.

 

Damn, glad nothing was damaged.

 

You got lucky is I did that it would have

 

How did the dipstick tube break?

 

Did you break it off trying to wiggle it out of the block??

 

yes.. tube was stuck in a block with 100k on it from salt country.

 

That happens quite often actually. I haven't heard of anyone actually sucking that piece into the moving parts though.