DeTomaso Mailing List: October 99, Message #218

Okay,  I replaced the oil pan gasket and installed a new oil pump and I
found quite a bit of metal in the screen for the oil pump.  There was one
piece of metal in the opil pan that was about a half inch long and looks
like a mail bearing.  All the other pieces are small.  There is about a
jigger of metal. (You can tell what I did after the oil pan deal).  I tried
to move the crank and each of the push rods. .  Everything seemed tight.
What would happen if I keep running the engine (who knows how long it has
been this way) for a while.  How much do you thing a rebuild on a 351
Windsor would cost?    Can I just replace the bearing or should I do a
rebuild?  The engine has over 100,000 miles on it.

Any comment or suggestions would be appreciated.

> Don Franck
> DJFranck@equilon.com
> Pantera #1777
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> "Some people said it couldn't be done.  What they meant was "They couldn't
> do it".
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