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Old 01-12-2010, 01:13 AM
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Ooo, we got bad news. Coper glitter in an oil filter is a sign of a pwnd bearing. I had issues earlier with a faulty oil filter seal allowing oil to blow out while driving. Issue was made worse by the cold since the oil is thicker, and had greater pressure when initially started. The effect of this? It could blow out a quart of oil in less than 2 days, and the only sign of this was if it either had shaky oil PSI at slow speeds, or unfortunantly, it usually lost oil on the freeway so that meant starving some of the motor for oil and unhappy sounds until I got off the freeway and poured in another $8 of royal purple... Despite it running good, with solid oil PSI, the copper material in the filter is a bad sign, as well as an odd rattle at high RPM and high load.

Truck runs great, cool, and still very strong, but it's on borrowed time it seems. Not sure if the oil filter issues were the cause, my driving, or the guys who rebuilt it.

Good news is I found a '69 Camaro 350 with vortec heads for $400, gotta see if it's still available. If so, back in bidness with a stronger motor, and I can set this one aside to rebuild later.

PS: it's had over 10,000 hard miles of shenanigans, towing, and hauling, lots of which were at freeway speed. Knew this day would come!
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