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On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 14:48, hisham bakr wrote: > Greetings & salutations, I was cleaning my oil strainer yesterday and out > comes a bunch of metal shavings/chips, about 4 of varying sizes the biggest > was about 1/4" across and maybe 1/64 in thickness, almost like pices of > sheet metal, and greyish in color. Whats the read on the such a symptom? Is > a valve seat disintegrating on me here? Stop running the engine. Sounds like you have a spun bearing. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org