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I put a chrome oil pan on the Mustang today.

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I put a chrome oil pan on the Mustang today. After I put all the tools away and cleaned up I noticed this inside the old oil pan. I know someone here can tell me what these are. Sorry the pics are sideways.
 

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the only thing that comes to mind may be wire ring out of the lifters but I have never seen them come out in volume. how big are they ?
 

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hmm lifter inner clips... to small for inner valve springs???
 

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If those are dents in the bottom of your stock oil pan, you are really going to have problems with a deep pan.
 

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That looks like a pretty big helicoil also.

Doubtful that is what it is. Looks clean for sitting in the bottom of the pan for any length of time also.

Brian
 

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I suspect a helicoil too. Just haven't pondered it enough to figure how it made it into the pan; where the hell did it come from?
 

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maybe someone back in the day dropped a helicoil down the distributor hole and it made its way down there. or down inside the block without even noticing that they did it.
 

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The old pan is dented, the new one is stock only chrome.
 

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Could it be the wire tensioner around the Teflon valve seals?
I don't know how they would get down there.
 

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What does the drain plug hole look like was it repaired once in time
If the edges of the metal pieces are pointed its a coil
Most likely oil drain hole was repaired once then a oversized plug was installed
 

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Could it be the wire tensioner around the Teflon valve seals?
I don't know how they would get down there.

That's about the only thing that makes any sense to me.:thumbup:
 

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Could it be the wire tensioner around the Teflon valve seals?
I don't know how they would get down there.

If some of the pieces are still full circles, how can they get off the valve?
 

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What does the drain plug hole look like was it repaired once in time
If the edges of the metal pieces are pointed its a coil
Most likely oil drain hole was repaired once then a oversized plug was installed

X2
 

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How does the engine run with the new oil pan and less moving parts?
 

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I am wondering was this a guy who didn't know how to do a helicoil trying to fix a pan plug he ham fisted and had one failure before getting it right, and the failure pieces wound up in the pan when the threads came apart.
 

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its your friends fucking with you throwing shit in the pan while you weren't looking.lol
 

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There doesn't seem to be any work done on the bung hole.
 

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Looks to be a broken return spring from an internally mounted Johnson rod.
 

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It's the muffler bearings from the conniption pin.
 

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I am wondering was this a guy who didn't know how to do a helicoil trying to fix a pan plug he ham fisted and had one failure before getting it right, and the failure pieces wound up in the pan when the threads came apart.

That's where I'm going....multiple attempts to repair a drain plug.:thumbup:

From my POS T-mobile thingie
 

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Does the oil pump have a valve to regulate pressure for temp conditions? Oil pump valve tension spring possibly.

I know some late model Chevy's have these types of valves...
 

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I don't know about the oil pump it is back together.
 

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I've never seen a heli-coil that was round.
If you look at the profile of the end of an insert, they are sort of diamond shaped...like a cut thread, not round like wire.

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That is a spring from somewhere, not a valve spring. Valve springs (inner) have a very hard time escaping the valve stem and outer spring.

OR a piece of wire stock that got wound up on something spinning and broke at intervals?

I'd start looking at google images at the internals of the engine? There has to be a clue somewhere....or some idiot on the assembly line dropped a piece of safety wire in by accident!
 

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That is a broken spring. I would check the oil pump pressure relief valve area. That drain plug is a repair plug, but would not cut shavings that look like a spring. When you replace the oil pump stop racing the engine before the oil gets hot, and stop using 20-50 oil. 10-30 is the correct oil.:)
 

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That is a broken spring. I would check the oil pump pressure relief valve area. That drain plug is a repair plug, but would not cut shavings that look like a spring. When you replace the oil pump stop racing the engine before the oil gets hot, and stop using 20-50 oil. 10-30 is the correct oil.:)

Thanks for everyone's input. I am running 10-30 oil.
 

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Does that oil pan make the car go faster? You could end up in a paul walker type situation. :p
 

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Does that oil pan make the car go faster? You could end up in a paul walker type situation. :p

It doesn't go any faster. The old one had a big dent in it and a chrome one was only six dollars more than a black one.
 
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