metal in my filter

[sunman]

fellas I'm in need of some advice, I have a solid roller'd/Coyles gear drive, 406, 600+hp in my drag boat.
King Bearings threw out, I broke in the eng. on Castro 30wgt. opened up the filter and found small metal shavings, Ok!
changed the oil to GT-1 20-50 and ran it for about 35mi. head a squeal in the mill around 4G's just for a sec. the oil psi was good, temps were good
thought it was a loose belt, never did/heard it again.
back at the shop fired it up again and all was good, no noise at all.
I opened up the filter and saw more shavings,
looked at all the main cap bearings, good to go. all the rods slide on their juornils, look'd at a few rod bearings, got one w/what apears 2B a scratch from some shiot, but the bearings R starting to get the polished look as they start to break-in, all the walls look great, and no shavings clinging to anything, I;m stumped...........

[sc racing]

Will the shavings stick to a magnet? If they do start looking at all your components like oil pan baffles,windage tray,dip stick, anything the crank could hit or scrape against.

[69firebird]

possibly bronze from a distributor gear? ive heard of lots of guys with roller cams getting some shiny stuff in the filter from these. hope this helps

[sunman]

OK fellas here ya go! it's the alum roller rockers toutching the valve springs and retainers
thanks anyway

[78 C10]

Sounds like you got fairly lucky. Last time I heard a motor squeel it was the thrust bearing because my motor guy didnt have a mounting plate between my block and scattershield. The input shaft from the trans was pushing on the crank and ate the bearing along with my crank.