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Old 12-16-2020   #34
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Default Re: So... this was in my oil drain pan...

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Originally Posted by A26B View Post
I should go check this before I start talking about it, but its late & too cold to go down to the shop to verify tonight.

There are 4 oil drain conduits from the cylinder heads, down through the cylinder block and into the oll pan exiting UNDER the baffle. If you will note, one of the 4 conduits is in the far rear corner of the cylinder head, right by the camshaft. The conduit is sealed with the head gasket and the oil pan gasket all the way down to within an inch or so of the very bottom of the oil pan, where an errant cam plug could exit underneath of the baffle tray.
That errant cam plug is most likely a 1/8 NPT (.405" diameter).......unlike the 1/4 NPT (.540" diameter) plug found in oil pan.

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