Not to sound bad, but are you sure they are metal? Maybe they could be dried up pieces of Silicone? Otherwise, non-ferrous metals in these old engines are few and far between.
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1969 Fastback, Fuel injected 302, Disc front, 3 speed, now with A/C and soon to get P/S
2006 F250 SD 6.0
They appear to be some type of sheet metal...when I opened the pic, my first thought was "windage tray". The only other thing that comes to the top of my head is perhaps a baffle from inside one of the valve covers?
They appear to be some type of sheet metal...when I opened the pic, my first thought was "windage tray". The only other thing that comes to the top of my head is perhaps a baffle from inside one of the valve covers?
They do look like sheet metal, but how would those big chunks make their way down to the pan? I am thinking out loud here, but what if someone installed the wrong pan and the crank hit something in the bottom of it and tore it apart?? I just can't imagine an engine running decently with that much metal missing from any of the bearings.
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1969 Fastback, Fuel injected 302, Disc front, 3 speed, now with A/C and soon to get P/S
2006 F250 SD 6.0
Nobody wants to tear into the motor but that might be the safest thing to do.
Start with a full inspection of the bottom end with the pan off and go from there. Might even want to post some pics from underneath there, maybe some of these motorheads can spot something that you can't.
I'd remove all covers, pans off, pull valve covers, even intake to see what you see. In the end you may take all apart BUT you need to know where problem is first.
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Pull the distributor and look at the drive and driven gears. If not there, look under the front cover. Those pieces appear to have been crushed up somehow and those are the only 2 places with gears/sprockets that would allow the pieces to drop in the pan.
Well the connecting-rod bearings are worn, but nothing like the metal shavings. I can see that my cam has some nice dings and some rust on it...that's probably not good. Time to pull the engine?
I recall that there were some aluminum/pot metal camshaft timing gears back in the days, possibly the ones with nylon teeth. They may have been aftermarket replacements instead of genuine Ford, maybe someone else remembers them. Pull the water pump and timing cover?
Wow, I have never seen anything like that unless some sloppy shop left stuff behind. Material that big cannot possibly from engine wear, it is either from some form of abuse or sloppy rebuild. I would say that requires monotoring in a short period of time. Material that large cannot possibly be coming from active parts without some other noticeable manifestation.
That's where I'm confused. The engine has never been apart or rebuilt. What I did today, and the removal of the intake manifold are as much disassembly this engine has ever had.
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