Zoltar4
Junior Member
I'll say this English is his second language and there is a significant language barrier. I solved this by visiting the shop. He showed me the piece of the bolt and I had a magnet and showed him its steel. He said the oil pump housing is aluminum and that the chain ground some into the oil pan. He had not yet removed the pan but put a hard sell on me to do it with the warning that the metal could get sucked out of the pan into the engine. 6 hours labor. Not an easy decision on a 13 year old truck with 200K miThere are two sided to every story, Did he really say aluminum bolt head or a bolt head and aluminum parts in the pan?
Then you got the 2 parts of the story mixed up?
Cheeping out on a fix will usually mean you do it over again and in this case take the motor out, if that crud gets mixed in the oil and end up in the bearings.
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