Originally Posted by brndck

yeahhhhhhhhhh if you had that much metal shaving in the pan theres a good chance it got sucked up into the oil pickup and there are shavings elsewhere in the engine. I wouldn't trust it unless I had replaced the oil pump and cleaned all the oil passages thoroughly.

i'm a big fan of ultrasonic cleaning, but its super convenient that they're only like 3 miles from my house.