Looks like a piece broken off a gold bracelet or necklace. Found it when I strained my oil. Looks all scratched up from being trashed around in the motor.

 

wow are you sure it wasnt in the drain pan be accident??? You are one lucky man if it was in your oil.. where do you have your oild changed at or do you always do it? any past motor work?

 

You're truck bought you a gift. I think it loves you!

 

Dont see how it could have been flushed out when you drained the pan, it would have had to be alomost right at the plug for the oil to pull it out. How did it get in the engine???? I agree with the other poster, I think it was in the drain pan not the engine.

 

thats freaking awesome

 

I've always changed my oil since I bought the truck, but it had 32k miles on it when I bought it. It sure wasn't in my oil pan because I have one of those catch pans where the oil drains down through a hole in the center and then goes down into a container. The gold heart was laying near the hole after the oil drained. I was like WTF how in the world....... It definitely came out of my motor.

 

-Charming!-

 

 

I think that's to large of an item to have passed down through the engine. no that I've seen the inside of one of these motors, I just can't see it happening. if it had been contacted by internal parts, I'm thinking it would have been ground to bits, not basically intact. I'd hang it up in the garage and show frieds but I would not worry about the engine at all.

 

Badum....Bump!!!

 

You have missed a possible obvious situation.

Your truck could be cheating on you!

Start keeping track of your mileage!

 

Guys ,
On a similar note ,and a blast from the past...I was workingin a body shop of a MG/ Triumph.....less say a dual line dealer in the early 70s. Customer dropped yjeir car off for a service and part of thewrite up was for a rattle in the passenger door. Upon tear down I found a technical school class ring from Great Brittian....It was returned to its original owner wha was an assembly line tech in the UK....who knows the pendant may have fallen in during assembly of the motor....
Rod

 

Is it possible to even get something to go from the oil fill to the pan, based on the size of it? Hard to imagine it could get all the way down to the pan without getting stuck somewhere. I can't think of any other way to get there without dropping the pan.

 

My guess is it somehow got in the oil while the oil was being manufactured.

 

I think its too big to have gone down the oil passages through the cylinder head. It had to have been in there from the time the motor was built.