plastic parts found in oil pump pickup

[birdman2447]

since the car is parked for the winter i wanted to check to see if the oil pump nut has ever been taken care of. So i pulled the pan and was sitting under the car and was staring up the oil pump pickup and saw some odd chunks of something plastic. I am not familiar enough with the engine to know where these would come from. Any info would be great-----thanks


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[ScotcH]

Looks like pieces of the timing rails (the clips)? If the chain does not feel sloppy with the tensioner still in, then it's likely from a previous repair. You need to get the timing cover off to fix it otherwise, which is not really an easy task.

[birdman2447]

thanks, the tensioner seems good to me, never any noise. do you think i am all set, is the the tensioner something that should be replaced at a certain mileage? It seems to be that most people just wait till ithey get loud before they replace them

[ScotcH]

If you don't have any issues, then I would chalk it up to previous repair, and move on