Tappets
Posted in Engine, The Long Rode on May 20th, 2012 by WadeLast night I decided to drain the oil. Then this morning I was going to refill and head up to the swap meet. When I pulled the filleter out of the oil tank I noticed some particulate mater on the rim. Upon further inspection it looks to be metal fillings. SHIT! Well long story short I talked to Hawg and based on the noise the push rods were making he figured it was at least one tappet going out. So this after noon I started pulling them apart. 
Now I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure the tappets are in good shape. There is no play that I can tell in them. So the next guess is maybe a piston is disintegrating. Again SHIT. But at least I’m checking all this be fore something catastrophic happens.