Thread: This could be expensive

Gee they look like some kind of rivet or could they be chain links, like from a timing chain, how wide are these beauties?
Never or less, I would cack myself If I found something like that in my sump.

Are they anodised aluminium?

Originally Posted by p38arover

Are they anodised aluminium?

They are steel and are 1.5 cm's long

Doesn't look like any engine part I recognise ??

The engine was running fine when i bought it other than a miss from way to much fuel . Wondering if the timing chain had busted and replaced ?

maybe they used to also rivet the bigends on back then........





all i can come up with is either someone didnt chek the sump before refitting it.......
or he has kids.....which like to stick all sorts of things in all different holes.....

they are not any engine parts ive seen in an engine......they wont do any harm...
they will just sit in the bottom of the sump.......too big and heavy to get dragged into anything......

They most likley are the rivets for the mud shield. A bodge job. You chisel off the heads and remove the mud shield. then punch the rivets through hoping the all fall into the sump. Replace the crankshaft oil seal from the outside then tap the holes and put screws to hold mud shield.

G'day Groucho

Yeah! you could be right there, front timing case Oilseal rivets,but there should be 8 from memory they were replaced by pan head metal thread tapping screws type B No 6 x1/4 inch the civilian motors had rivets.

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