This is the
oil I poured from the filter. Swirled it around with my finger, and it streaks with a silverish tint.
Further inspection of the rocker adjusters/cups on the driver side indicate a difference in wear or cup depth. I can put on push rod in it's corresponding cup and it spins freely, and that same push rod in another cup and it either doesn't spin freely, or sits further down in the cup, as if the cup is deeper. Now, when I first got them, it appeared that all the push rods sat in the cups much higher, although I can't be absolutely certain of that.
Even so, is the cup being worn because the lash keeps getting to wide and it's pounding, or is the lash getting wider because the cups are stretching/deepening....That is the question.
I didn't find any pieces of metal anywhere in the head or around the rockers, although looking at the holes in the cups, it appears that they are not perfect holes as I believe they once were. There was no loose metal that I could see, but the holes are definately not smoothly drilled holes anymore.
In the filter, there was some very very thin shiny metal flakage, but nothing sizable.
Oh, did I tell you my very understanding wife is about to kill me?
