Thread: 1992 300D 2.5 vacuum pump "FAILURE" ball bearings fell into timing chain
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Old 10-05-2012, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by torsionbar View Post
foreign objects in oil pan are not a big deal, so long as they are larger than the holes in the pickup screen, and so long as there's not enough of them to restrict flow into the pump. i once found a complete mouse skeleton in vw beetle engine, looked to have been in there for years. car ran fine.
read some threads where the balls have worked their way thru the screen
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