Member Since: 20 May 2015
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 33
Er, what's this in my engine oil??
Changed my engine oil today and found this along with plenty of ground metal....
(key for scale )
....I'm sure its fine
5th May 2022 2:32 pm
Moo D3 Decade
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Something that probably shouldn't be there...New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
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5th May 2022 2:58 pm
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
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Steel?
Looks like something has fallen off that shouldn't have! Richard
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5th May 2022 4:12 pm
mattcoll
Member Since: 20 May 2015
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 33
Oops, no metal fragments (stray blast media), nothing much in the filter, and this metal part looks a lot like a bit of cv joint, I had one shatter a while back….how did it get in my drain tub though?
5th May 2022 7:00 pm
DN D3 Decade
Member Since: 24 Jun 2006
Location: W.London.
Posts: 2293
Is that fragment too large to have come out of the sump plug hole ? If so, more likely to be debris from your shattered cv joint, I would think.D3 owned from new, P017 brake recall, BAS FBHIC, new FBH, LR013487 oil pump, new water pump. RRS front lower suspension arms. New suspension compressor/ relay. New Denso alternator. CuNifer rear brake pipes. New GKN rear propshaft. New HPFP belt & tensioner. New A/C Condenser.NO WARRANTY for many many years.
Is the drain plug magnetic and just held on to this until you disturbed it?
Does indeed look like part of a CV joint..
Dean
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5th May 2022 8:25 pm
Globetrotter448
Member Since: 21 Mar 2017
Location: Londonderry NSW
Posts: 1782
As it was in the sump, I would be removing the pan and checking the lower engine parts.
11th May 2022 10:06 am
loanrangie
Member Since: 18 Jun 2017
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 599
Its not an engine component or part of.
12th May 2022 2:59 am
Globetrotter448
Member Since: 21 Mar 2017
Location: Londonderry NSW
Posts: 1782
Then the question would be "how did it get in the sump"
12th May 2022 5:13 am
loanrangie
Member Since: 18 Jun 2017
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 599
I doubt it was in the sump, probably in his drain pan - too big to come out of the drain hole.
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