The BBQ tick does increase and follow RPM. If something was moving side to side because of a little play there would not be metal shavings in my oil and other peoples oil.
I agree with that, I guess not everyone has had metal in their oil or they dont know if there is any, I had this tick for roughly 2500 miles and first time I'm seeing metal is now. If the tick went away after engine was warm and didn't follow rpm I would be worried about it. I'm going to wait and see what they tell me and ask about if there not flushing it I want a new long block.
Obviously there are more than one thing that can make an engine noisy - loose rod or main bearings, excessive piston clearance, too much rod side clearance, too much crank end play, bad lifter(s), broken valve spring, faulty cam chain tensioner, etc.. Some of those problems will put metal in the oil, some of them won't. The BBQ tick certainly is random while at idle. If it was a constant perfectly timed ticking with RPM, then it's something else.
If you search about "glitter" or metal in catch cans you may find it's pretty common (often said to be from the filter element in the can). Allot of responses also seem to say it's difficult for metal to come through the PVC system, so unlikely.... I did allot of reading after seeing the sparkly badness first hand...I'm not the expert but if the internet in general is to believed this isn't the same thing as seeing it in your oil filter or oil drained from the oil pan.
Yea I even vacuumed the catch can before install, and I had drained it multiple times before this. I had an oil change too 700 miles before this so its not the original break in oil. Its castrol edge extended performance which says it contains liquid titanium but i dont think that would be some visible glitter...)
If it was cylinder liner, I do believe that plasma arc liner is magnetic. However, it is commonly known among Navy Engineers (like myself), that metallic yet non-magnetic particles are almost ALWAYS going to be a babbit/antimony type of alloy....ie. BEARING material.
You probably are very correct
That also seems like another real head-scratcher. Unless air flow through that catch-can was like a hurricane, I just don't see how free flowing vapor would carry that many particles. It just seems odd.
Yeah, seems hard to believe that particles of that size would get into the catch-can by the PCV system ... but maybe they are smaller than they seem and can get carried in the oil vapors.
Nonsense.That is not from the can being made.
Had 4-5 good runs of oil dumped out over 2-3 k miles before I started seeing metal in mine, its not from the can being made.
