i posted in the a5 thread accidently..
here it is again in the right thread.. sorry

so i bought a 2000 a4 1.8t, had engine ticking pretty bad, i thought it was low oil pressure caused by sludge. well i got the pan off and it has quite a few( i try to insert pics ) metel shavings, and there pretty big, all of it seems to be magnetic and there paper thin. is there any way this could be caused from a bad turbo being drivin hard and dumping shavings into the oil pan? any ideas where i should start to look? i plan on pulling some rod caps, and crank bearings to see where it is at. oo yeah i pulled a single cam bearing and it didnt look bad at all. gave me hope. someone has def been into the oil pan befor, blue rtv everywhere, and the oil baffle is missing.

any ideas are greatly appreciated





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if more pics would help let me know?

Should i just start looking for a used engine?

maybe i can get away with just replacing a rod or something?


the guy i got it from said he put a new turbo on it when he got it. i checked the one in it is shot. he also sold it to me as a quattro-swor up and down, its not, lol i know i got taken, the ? at this point is how bad. i would have crawled under it then but it was raining and iam paralyzed from the waist down and i didnt wanna get all nasty..

iam just ranting nowlol,feels kinda good though. sorry for the long post.. iam a newb here, learned alot so far. great place and people.. pls help..... audi gods be with me and you!!


Thank
Chris

 

here is a pic of one of the biggest i could find . it has lots of metel scriations on it.

come on someone has as opinion. am i done, or is it saveable..

 

that looks really unhealthy. Not sure what it could be. Pull the head and check the cylinder bores

 

It turned out it is a spun #1 cylinder rob bearing...

Do you guys think i can get away with haveing the crank reground and a larger bearing and new rod, or is it used engine time.