ok, so the guy who was suposed to put my motor back in tried to **** me over by putting the old oil filter back on my new motor, when it came with a brand new one!! to make a long story short, I got pissed at the guy and finish the install myself, go to prime the motor and had an oil leak. . so I get under the car and look to see where it is coming from, and see the old filter. ****!!!! . . that filter came off a motor that had a HUGE knock and shaved a good 1/4 inch off the crank. so now I have TONS of metal in my brand new motor. what I need to know is how to get the metal out without having to drop my pan.

so far I drained the bad oil and put new oil in it, changed the filter and primed it again. I plan to do this a few more times before I attempt the start it, but if I put big magnets on the bottom of the pan (I have the industrial ones). . will that collect alot of the oil till I can get it outa there later on?? correct me if I am wrong, but even if the metal was ciculated, as long and no load is on the motor it should pass right through and I should be able to get it out, right? or is my motor toast before even being started???

I need to know, cuz don't have another 500 to have the motor pulled and put back in, or the 4000 to have another 383 built. . am I screwed???

thanks for the help.

 

ok im not too sure on this but if you do what you say your going to then it will probably work but then again with my luck if i did that the motor will wear prematurly or however the hell ya spell it.

 

it's not an oil pan issue, now you have a pull the engine and dissasemble issue. since you tried to prime it, you likely have it in most if not all of the oil galley's.

 

that is what I was worried about, so I was sayin, if I change the oil and filter and prime it like 5 times with new oil and filter, do you think I could get rid of it?? I mean the pieces of metal are pretty miniscule, like pieces of dust, but metal none the less.