Today was a beautiful day and I woke up early (10:30am) for a non working day. I felt very motivated to do something of importance. Give blood or help the elderly neighbors NOPE! I had an oil pan gasket that’* been leaving the occasional drip in my pretty white parking spot at the shop. So that was my mission for the day. I got the part # for the gasket and went to Advanced Auto parts and got the Felpro gasket set.

So I installed the pan gasket along with the gasket for the oil pickup tube which came in the set. I finally installed the oil pan I bough from Andrew (harofreak00) months ago. And also my oil pressure kit from Intense which I bought like 2 months ago.

My old pan had a few little little sparkles in there which my uncle said was common for a motor with 170k to have on the bottom of the pan. My oil pressure before my kit wasn’t low (just a tad under 40psi @ hot idle in traffic) so I’m not overly worried about major wear in my bottom end. Cylinder walls in the block looked nice and shiny too. But I did find something that looked like a little plastic or nylon tooth in the bottom of my pan any idea what this could be? I forgot to grab it to take a picture and it'* mostly in the trash 12miles away from my house @ my aunt'* house.

All in all it was a very relaxing day. The girlfriend is out of the picture and moving to Texas as I’m typing this and I took my good old time on this project to just relax. Switched to Mobile 1 Full Synthetic I’ve been using Castrol Syntec Full Synthetic since I got car.


Ed

Are you asking for help with a problem?

Aside from talking about my day changing gaskets.

Is there anything plastic that could come apart inside the motor? Or maybe if & when a timing chain or something of the sorts was changed b4 I bought the car could something have broken then?

Maybe the timing chain tensioner? That'* the only thing I can think of that is plastic in the oiling circuit.

What color was it?

After cleaning it off it appeared to be silver in color. 2 of the 4 sides looked like it had broke away from something too.

If it were a dark brown, I'd say it could have come from the lifter guides. They have some interesting features that can look like a plastic tooth.

There'* nothing that color on the inside of the engine. It probably got in there during an oil change at some point in it'* life.