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Hi
Hope someone can help.
I've recently bought a 2006 C320 V6 diesel.
Upon changing the oil, I've found very tiny needle roller bearings stuck in the filter cartridge.
Bought car with a few issues cheap.
Turbo had gone due to suspected low oil pressure. Removed pump and stripped to find more bearings chewed up inside.
Question is, does this engine have any tiny roller bearings in it??
Hope you can help.
Regards Michael
Last edited by Gingerninja; Jan 4, 2017 at 05:35 PM.
Reason: Thanks but been onto Mercedes this afternoon and apparently my engine does NOT contain this type of bearing. Apparently been added through oil filler as attempt to stop it. This is the reason it's a
I don't think that is from your engine.. they must have been put there..
thanks Russell.
I called into Local Merc dealer yesterday to ask the question. Same reply my engine doesn't have these in it.
It's a CAT C car. Body etc is absolutely mint. They also agreed car has been tampered with, ie someone had put them in too damage it.
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Are those "very tiny needle roller bearings" magnetic? As in earth magnet strong?
Pure speculation, but the transmission pan has a small removable magnet stuck to it for the purpose of collecting metal shavings ditto for filter. That small removable magnet has ribs and what if these types of earth magnets were inside of them. What if someone were to put this small removable magnet in the engine oil pan,.... engine oil probably get higher heat,... which could melt the rubber-plastic outer part of that small removable magnet,... thus freeing these "very tiny needle roller bearings" shaped earth magnets,....
That is just super weird. If I wanted to tamper with an engine, putting needle bearings in it would not be the first thing to occur to me. Where would you even get needle bearings that were not in some casing? And then to stuff them in the filter? How would you do that? Because they had to get to the filter somehow. But if they were in the pan, the pickup tube would not pick them up I don't think. But yet the oil pump was destroyed. Are we sure that the oil pump on that engine does not use needle bearings? Or something else? Anyway, you need to drop your oil pan and see what is in there.
Yes drop the pan asap, Why would anyone put them in the filter/housing Just put them straight in the oil filler, They look like front wheel bearing rollers.
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