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I KNOW there might be metal particles in the oil. I flushed as much as I could, and luckily there wasn't much on the oil plug magnet.





there MIGHT be ??

The reason there wasn't alot on the magnet is because it was recycled back into the engine , your oil pump is scored badly , you're lucky it didn't lock up and break it's drive shaft , the pistons below that one got the meatl on it and it's imbedded in the skirt and scored up the walls ...

Just run it till it



Don't be so quick with the death sentence. He's lucky, lucky because the wear is so smooth. The resulting particles have got to be very small--extremely small in fact--otherwise the wear would have been coarse.

This is a case where the particles may have done very little damage, and ended up as a paste in the oil filter.
I would definately cut open the filter out of curiosity.