Metal shavings - how much is normal?
From : Annonymous
Q: wife was waiting to turn right at a light probably the 5th or 6th car in line. she had just pulled past an exit to a shopping center and had to stop leaving plenty of room behind her for folks exiting the shopping center parking lot. a lady in a mid-90s nissan wasnt paying attention and pulled out of the exit and whacked into the dodge hitting the hitch area with her right front. she was probably going about 5 mph or so maybe a little more. damage to dodge scratched bumper. small rip in plastic bumper cover top. scratched hitch receiver. total cost to ladys ins. co. $700.00 damage to nissan totaled. watching pieces fall off the nissan inside and out the heater core ended up on the floor of the passenger footwell and the airbag let go. priceless. ;- glad nobody was injured. my wifes 93 dakota was rearended while waiting for a light to change on the parkway. it damaged the rear bumper and bumper brackets to the tune of $700. the honda 5 yr old accord i think was totaled and had to be towed away. -- fmb only one b in fmb .
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From : mike simmons
you guys have helped me before thank you now maybe someone can help me again. my trouble is it idles just fine. when i give it gas it revs to a point and will continue at that speed. when i give it more gas it cuts out and runs like crap. i replaced the fuel pump last year when it brought the wife home and wouldnt start the next day. that worked. i guess my question is.... can the pump get to where it doesnt pump enough to operate the engine at a faster revolution because it seems like im just getting a trickle out of it now. seems to me that with the input tube disconected it should shoot fuel across the backyard. it doesnt. am i looking at swapping the fuel pump again thanks for any replys. dave .
From : tom lawrence
there are no pictures because it didnt happen. it doesnt take a rocket scientist to understand that a 5mph bump does not total a car. even a rice rocket. -- steve ========= you may be right. if i recall there is a federal mandate that the bumpers on all cars sold in the us must be able to withstand a 5 mph or maybe higher now with no or minimal damage to the vehicle. applies to rice burners as well as domestics. totaled at 5 mph i doubt it. eisboch .
From : idaspode
on sun 13 jun 2004 072155 -0700 mshackleford@fuse.net wrote sorry to get back to you so late. it was at the first scheduled service 15k miles. schedule b for a ram 1500. now that i think about it the metal slivers that i saw could have been particles that were stacked on top of each other. kind of like a crystal structure except formed by the magnetism. my memory is getting fuzzy now and i cant picture just how much there was. probably a little more that the quantity youre talking about. i do know that they cleaned off the magnet and flushed out the inside of the housing. very small particles can stack up and look just like slivers as you describe happens every tranny oil change on my dirtbike two stroke. if its mud stacking up i wouldnt worry. you need to feel the particles that adhere to the magnet to tell the difference. wipe off the magnet with a clean paper towel the mud will absorb the slivers will be left. on my dirtbike which has aluminum parts in the clutch and shares oil with the transmission if i am getting concerned about wear ill filter the oil through a fine sieve old metal coffee filter to see what all is in there. while i was thumbing through the maintenance book i noticed that im due for a spark plug change at 30k. how in the heck do you change the back plugs of a hemi im not as young and limber as i used to be lol. step one remove engine see chapters 2-5 step two replace plugs step three replace engine see chapters 7-10 dj .
From : billygoat
where is this magnet that people keep talking about. i was just in my differential 9 1/4 the other day and didnt see any. didnt know to look for it either. bill -- sorry to get back to you so late. it was at the first scheduled service 15k miles. schedule b for a ram 1500. now that i think about it the metal slivers that i saw could have been particles that were stacked on top of each other. kind of like a crystal structure except formed by the magnetism. my memory is getting fuzzy now and i cant picture just how much there was. probably a little more that the quantity youre talking about. i do know that they cleaned off the magnet and flushed out the inside of the housing. so anything i see next time should be new stuff. i had chrysler synthetic and friction modifier put back in it. should i wait until 45k to have another look at it what are some of the signs of impending failure while i was thumbing through the maintenance book i noticed that im due for a spark plug change at 30k. how in the heck do you change the back plugs of a hemi im not as young and limber as i used to be lol. thanks again on sun 30 may 2004 121747 -0500 mike simmons mikesim@fidnet.com wrote how many miles on your vehicle is this the first diff service if not how many miles since the last service it is normal to have some metal particles not slivers! stuck to the magnet. how much depends on the above three questions. without knowing the answers to the above i suspect that if the quantity is less than about a quarter of a thimbleful you are ok. chryco service manager member sae i had the rear end serviced a couple weeks back and it seemed to me that there where an awful lot of metal shavings stuck to the magnet. before i go off the deep end worrying about whether its going to fail i though id ask around. without having a picture of what i saw i know its going to be hard to quantify what a lot is. the magnet was completely covered with slivers. best i can remember the wear pattern looked normal and there werent any pits or chips in the gears. thanks its a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. -- andrew jackson .
From : tom lawrence
where is this magnet that people keep talking about. i was just in my differential 9 1/4 the other day and didnt see any. didnt know to look for it either. its a small about 1x1 magnet like you use to hang things on a refrigerator located in a little recess on the bottom of the differential case. it just lays there in that recess it holds itself in place and you can remove it if you want. .
From : Annonymous
sorry to get back to you so late. it was at the first scheduled service 15k miles. schedule b for a ram 1500. now that i think about it the metal slivers that i saw could have been particles that were stacked on top of each other. kind of like a crystal structure except formed by the magnetism. my memory is getting fuzzy now and i cant picture just how much there was. probably a little more that the quantity youre talking about. i do know that they cleaned off the magnet and flushed out the inside of the housing. so anything i see next time should be new stuff. i had chrysler synthetic and friction modifier put back in it. should i wait until 45k to have another look at it what are some of the signs of impending failure while i was thumbing through the maintenance book i noticed that im due for a spark plug change at 30k. how in the heck do you change the back plugs of a hemi im not as young and limber as i used to belol. thanks again on sun 30 may 2004 121747 -0500 mike simmons mikesim@fidnet.com wrote how many miles on your vehicle is this the first diff service if not how many miles since the last service it is normal to have some metal particles not slivers! stuck to the magnet. how much depends on the above three questions. without knowing the answers to the above i suspect that if the quantity is less than about a quarter of a thimbleful you are ok. chryco service manager member sae i had the rear end serviced a couple weeks back and it seemed to me that there where an awful lot of metal shavings stuck to the magnet. before i go off the deep end worrying about whether its going to fail i though id ask around. without having a picture of what i saw i know its going to be hard to quantify what a lot is. the magnet was completely covered with slivers. best i can remember the wear pattern looked normal and there werent any pits or chips in the gears. thanks its a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. -- andrew jackson .