For those with an oil pressure gauge

[5RON5]

oil pressure.

You can bet I am doing the same thing! In fact, I even have a pan gasket! HA! Ahead of the game for once! Thanks for the info, but glad you didn't have to experience the problem of blowing an engine first! Which is exactly what I hope to do! Thanks for the in site! Ron...

[hungryman]

Perhaps... but I think we can be fairly certain that, even in the 'good old days' when our GS machines were being assembled, the Hamahatsu factory would have been clean to the point where you could have eaten off their workbench surfaces. I mean, like any vehicle manufacturer, they would have done anything and everything to ensure that there were as few warranty claims as possible.

Metal shavings, etc. can have all sorts of sources. Starter clutch rollers can shed metal chips, as can gear box cogs, etc. etc. The real damage gets done as these small metal fragments make their journey down to the sump. Once there, they're safe, but on the way they can easily get spun around through all those moving parts and sloshing oil... ... leading to the interesting metallic creations we discover parked in the sump.

Mike.

You might conclude that, but it is a factory. Believe me when I tell you I inspected everything. There were BIG shavings, not little ones. The factory is the only place they could have come from.