small green things in my oil!

[ciaranmac1]

Hi all,on changing my oil i decided to inspect the filter,surprisingly it was full of tiny green particles,non magnetic,almost like ceramic but im thinking plastic will go hard with the heat as well.Could it be timing chain guide breaking down?my car has 92k miles and runs like new,as sweet as a new engine,could it be a new engine or rebuilt?

[txhokie4life]

Hi all,on changing my oil i decided to inspect the filter,surprisingly it was full of tiny green particles,non magnetic,almost like ceramic but im thinking plastic will go hard with the heat as well.Could it be timing chain guide breaking down?my car has 92k miles and runs like new,as sweet as a new engine,could it be a new engine or rebuilt?

Can you clean it up and take a picture -- the guides in my 3.2L were brownish -- I don't remember seeing anything in there that was green.

Mike

[ciaranmac1]

Hi all,on changing my oil i decided to inspect the filter,surprisingly it was full of tiny green particles,non magnetic,almost like ceramic but im thinking plastic will go hard with the heat as well.Could it be timing chain guide breaking down?my car has 92k miles and runs like new,as sweet as a new engine,could it be a new engine or rebuilt?

Can you clean it up and take a picture -- the guides in my 3.2L were brownish -- I don't remember seeing anything in there that was green.

Mike

Sorry iv disposed of it,it was hundreds if little pieces,almost like fine gravel,but def not magnetic,first thing i checked! :o

[txhokie4life]

Hi all,on changing my oil i decided to inspect the filter,surprisingly it was full of tiny green particles,non magnetic,almost like ceramic but im thinking plastic will go hard with the heat as well.Could it be timing chain guide breaking down?my car has 92k miles and runs like new,as sweet as a new engine,could it be a new engine or rebuilt?

Can you clean it up and take a picture -- the guides in my 3.2L were brownish -- I don't remember seeing anything in there that was green.

Mike

Sorry iv disposed of it,it was hundreds if little pieces,almost like fine gravel,but def not magnetic,first thing i checked! :o

Most of the oil plastics are black.

Chain guides and tensioners are brownish. Of course in fine pieces the color may appear to be something else.

The water pump impeller I think was a lightish gray - -but that wouldn't be in the oil.

See if you can find lnline pix of the timing guides -- and see if that color could match what you are talking about.

I could see the chain hitting the guide and shaving it producing the debris you describe.

Is that bad? Well obviously that is not good -- to fix it you would have to pull the heads and replace the guides,

not as bad as having to crack the case -- but no a trivial amount of work either.

There was a posting of Jack Raby that showed a failure of one of the chain tensioners - and it took out the complete

engine -- so I would be concerned about those -- but you mihgt be ok if the guides get a little chewed up -- I don't know

they serve any distinc purporse other than "guiding" the longsih chains from the IMS to the Cams.

mike

[White987S]

Ciaranmac1, what oil are you running? Have you ever used an oil additive? Next time send out an oil sample to a place like Blackstone, for analysis.

[ciaranmac1]

It was my first oil change on buying the car,first thing i done was fit Mobil1 0-40w.

[ciaranmac1]

Im thinking on removing the oil filter for a inspection,iv covered maybe 500 miles since oil change,so if its a pending problem it should itself again.Iv never used anything in conjunction with good quality oil.