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hi all,

I recently spray painted my rocker covers. im not sure what type of paint the painter used but basically his work is shit.

anyway when i remove the engine oil cap, the contact area has some of the paint being stripped off so im sure some of it mustve ended up inside the oil.

is this bad for my motor / turbo oil lines? or the oil filter will do its job filtering the dry painted flakes ?

thanks

Edited by -S-

If it were me i would;

1. Remove rocker covers and clean all paint off the inside and cap area (ie keep all the areas clean that the factory left clean). Remove any flakes from the top of the motor.

2. Drop oil and filter. Cut filter open and inspect for flakes

3. Refill with cheap oil

4. Drive for 50 kms

5. Drop oil and filter

6. Refill with good oil

7. Keep an eye on the oil pressure gauge with a high degree of paranoia (worried about paint flakes on oil pick up).

8. Cross fingers

Might be too paranoid..... a photo would be good.

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I had pickup blocked from powder coat on rocker covers ( no it wasn't my doing). Killed the engine.

Paint shouldn't be a problem, but if you have flakes - remove rocker covers, Clean it asap and get camera in sump to look at pickup.

I cleaned the pickup twice and it still ended up starving the bottom end of the block.

wow. how do you end up with powder coat flakes.....coater must have been a real butcher

Guessing inside of rocker wasn't prepped properly and the oil/heat/fuel did the rest.

Still a sore point and have a bee in the bonnet with the fabricator....

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