another idea.

I am going to drain the oil again, drop the pan and look for more evidence today. The engine has been run on fresh oil for maybe 20 min b/c I was doing a coolant flush.

Is it safe to presume that if there are no more flakes that this is not continuing?

this really healpful info.. I can not thank you enough.

thank you

the car has 187k and is pretty clean in the bottom end. Runs w/ lots of power.

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