Help with oil pan removal.............

[eightbanger]

Originally Posted by Green Machine

Looks like a plastic sleeve from the oil pump shaft, some teeth from plastic coated timing gear and some remains of a push rod. Tap the pickup screen on the pump, bet you will find some more stuff in there.

Thats where one of those metal pieces was, must be quite a suction on those pickups.

Originally Posted by LockDoc

I can Just about guarantee it's from an earlier problem or your motor wouldn't be running at all...

Glad to see you got it disassembled.

LockDoc

Thanks Leon, it's been a learning curve....but I would'nt be able to tackle any of these things if I didn't have the help of this board.