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Originally Posted by John Plut
Also be very careful not to drop any of the little valve cups or keepers because it appears they could go down an oil drain hole and disappear into the engine. I tried to keep the drain holes covered with a small rag.
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Very careful indeed! At some point in the past someone dropped one of these into my engine. They are called ball sockets. Years later the little sucker beat its way through the oil pump screen and locked up the oil pump, shearing the drive gear off the front of the pump.
Only a miracle let me shut down the engine soon enough for no harm to be done, and that was after I heard it start rattling and knocking. I removed the pump, found the problem, cursed the perpetrator, replaced the pump and all is well.