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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Boston
Posts: 592
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![]() I know this is a stupid question: the answer is none, but here is the situation:
I was taking off the lower intake and, amongst other things, I found walnut shells, leaves, sand, that nice engine gunk and a lollipop stem sitting on my lower intake. So I scooped then brushed then used a vacuum cleaner then compressed air but when I finally pulled the intake, some sand trapped between the cylinder heads and the intake fell onto the rollers and a bit into the intake ports. I wiped and vacuumed 98% of this up. Should I be overly concerned about a few wayward grains of sand? Will the engine grind them up or it it going to seize immediatley? |
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cranky old man
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Longview Texas
Posts: 683
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![]() Thats not a good situation bud
![]() At very least and bare minimum i'd change the oil then run it no more than 3 or 4 min (no load, no reving) then pull the pan and clean it out throughly and change the oil and filter again. |
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#3 |
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Boston
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![]() If I pun my hand along the roller deck, every once in a while I'll feel a grain or two. Wont this all end up in the oil filter after a few minutes?
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cranky old man
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Longview Texas
Posts: 683
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![]() Quote:
In all likelyhood a few grains of sand aren't gonna ruin your motor. if they would i'd be in big trouble cause i live near the desert and drive through it often ... and anybody who knows the desert knows that freekin sand will get into a submarine, you can't filter it all no matter how hard you try. |
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Kamloops, BC
Posts: 2,875
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![]() All it takes in one grain of sand to deteriorate a bearing surface or load surface and...uh oh.
With any luck the oil filtration system will catch it first. |
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