Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Originally Posted by John_D2

How big is it?

Enormous!
If I’d have caught it prior to putting all that nice fresh oil in I’d have pulled the sump off.

It might be a chunk of the structural ribbing from the sump itself. There’s what appears to be a dent in it which is worrying. This engine got rebuilt before I owned the car so goodness knows what history applies here. I’m hoping it’s a bit of vibration / metal fatigue finishing off something prior to the rebuild.

Is it metal or plastic?
Could it be from timing chain runner thingo, did see some pics on here ages ago, but they were orange

Originally Posted by RobMichelle

Is it metal or plastic?
Could it be from timing chain runner thingo, did see some pics on here ages ago, but they were orange

It appears to be cast metal of some kind. My untrained eye says same as the sump casing.

Cast aluminium, can you take a pic of the dent in the sump?

Originally Posted by John_D2

Champion!

Originally Posted by Wil2k

This fell out of my sump when I changed the oil!



I’m not going to panic... yet.

That would not have fit through the sump plug hole?
Was it in the sump or on the outside?

Originally Posted by DiscoDiscoMan

That would not have fit through the sump plug hole?
Was it in the sump or on the outside?

Inside. It did indeed fit through the plug hole. I guess the suction force of the oil exiting helped a bit. It must have come out lengthwise. I heard it hit the bottom of the drain pan but didn’t realise that’s what I heard at the time and only put two and two together after I’d finished up and was emptying the pan. I mean who expects something that big to drop out?

Originally Posted by Bluetoes

Cast aluminium, can you take a pic of the dent in the sump?

Sorry, I didn’t describe it properly. The dent is in the piece of stray metal. You see it in the pic I posted with the ruler. It’s in the “elbow”. More of a nick than a dent perhaps? Theres another longer impression / mark right next to it.