flyingmonkey1

Hi all,

Was changing the oil on my 2006 z06 today and when I took off the oil drain plug on the magnetic end I was cleaning off the particles it caught and mixed in with the general sludge was a tiny spring! Any ideas where it came from and should I be concerned? Never found anything like it in any of my oil changes.

Dano523

Spring from one of the seals (it adds tension to the seal lips), and the question is if that is part of a seal that was replaced, or part of a seal still in play instead.

If the HB was replaced not long ago, may just be part of the HB seal as it was pulled and replaced.


But seeing that it did manage to get into the crank to be chewed up a touch, would be dropping the oil pan to see if more of it still in the pan, or check for front or rear main seal that is leaking, if it the spring did not come from a replaced seal instead.

GMJim

Another picture of the spring beside a tape measure or a dime may help figuring out what it is. The springs in the valve seals are tiny.

Dano523

Ditto, since could be the lip seal spring from a valve seal as well.


Bottom line, do you know the history of the motor and what has been done to it, since that may narrow down if the spring came from a old part replaced, or it part still in play is missing a spring isntead.

And with finding one retainer spring, would be pulling the oil pan to check for more in it as well.