It does seem worrying Lauren's even though I imagine your early car now has a significant mileage. I remember being in a syndicate running a 1970's Cessna 172 with Lycoming O-320 engine. The model year used a variant of this engine with T bucket cam followers that had a history of early failure. Consequently at each oil change the filter was split open. Unsurprisingly this eventually revealed the onset of cam follower failure well before any danger of power loss. I believe an old oil sample was sent to the lab for analysis as well to back up the findings. Apparently this can even reveal what part of engine the particles are shed from.
Not suggesting it's the same with your engine Lauren's and would have expected a small amount of white metal from plain bearings being trapped by filter but that would not be magnetic.
Last edited by RichardV6; 26/08/21 07:51 AM.
