honestly i don't feel that is alot of debris for a typical 4000-5000 mile oil change...

you also have to factor in what was sitting on th bottom of the oil pan when your oil was changed before you had the magnet. so some of that debris could be pre-magnet. Know what i'm saying?

anyways, i think your safe just look at the magnet next oilchange and see if the level of debris went down...i think it will.

John

 

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Your engine isn't modded right? Engine oil you use?

 

Oddly enough, I also installed the magnetic sump plug on my last oil change. Thing is, the amount of crud shown in the photo above is more or less what you're hoping to find. The idea is to nab any casting bits that got loose in the system and never made it to the filter. What you're doing is clearing this stuff out before it can cause blockage or scoring.

I'll photo mine in about 3000 miles and we'll see what's what.

 

I read this quickly earlier but didn't respond. I concur with the idea that there may have been a larger amount of junk on the oil pan that couldn't drain properly before this. The magnet picked it up slowly as the oil circulated. I would think that in the next fill or possibly 2 if there's still remnant on the bottom of the pan that it'd be greatly reduced. If not, then I'd start to question things. Until then, just monitor it.

 

Thanks for your answers!
I was worried because on my other car I never got so much debris but I was using a magnet since the rebuilt of the engine.
Effectively that can be debris laying in the oil pan before I put the magnet, I will check the magnet in January just before the end of my warranty and will see if there is still so much debris.

Thanks again!

Fred

 

UPDATE:

Did my first oil change after installing the magnetic sump plug. Man, took me awhile to put 3,000 miles on!

Anyway, I was curious to see if picked anything up but no drama. Came out clean and zero shavings.

 

Originally posted by southerneditor
UPDATE:

Did my first oil change after installing the magnetic sump plug. Man, took me awhile to put 3,000 miles on!

Anyway, I was curious to see if picked anything up but no drama. Came out clean and zero shavings.

Cool! i just picked one of those plugs off of ebay- glad to hear you pulled no shavings... rightfully so BTW.

Joe

 

Wow think I might get one of those, guessing the celica/corolla one fits the spyder?

 

Probably the same as the Celica. Got mine off e-bay in the Spyder section, but it's one of those deals where the seller pimps the part across models if the part is identical.

The magnet, by the way, is really powerful - if there's anything floating around in there, this will extract it. Mine shipped with a metal washer, and on the oil change I swapped it for the regular soft gasket.

 

Originally posted by southerneditor
Probably the same as the Celica. Got mine off e-bay in the Spyder section, but it's one of those deals where the seller pimps the part across models if the part is identical.

The magnet, by the way, is really powerful - if there's anything floating around in there, this will extract it. Mine shipped with a metal washer, and on the oil change I swapped it for the regular soft gasket.

after the first oil change, did the magnet still have the same power? cheap magnets actually lose their magnetizm when exposed to higher temps (as in it goes away a little at a time, and the higher the temperature, the faster it goes away. we have a 350 degree F press at work that killed some cheap magnets in a matter of minutes...

Richard

 

I had much less (2ZZ, still low miles, maybe 10K miles) and it was greyish. But I can't say if that's a normal amount. Professional analysis can be done on oil.

 

Or, you could try this option to save those nasty little particles

 

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Good question. I didn't do the same "pick up a pipe wrench" test I did when I unwrapped it, but when I finished unscrewing the plug and tried to pull it away from the pan, it snapped back onto the side of the pan with a "clang!" Regarding the oil filter wrap, those are popular with the Brit boys on mr2roc.com.

 

The filter magnet is great... but i would only get the larger size and its damn expensive!

 

Nice find on the oil filter magnet. Griot's has some neat stuff. Check out the Hella horns and oil trays with a screw-on lid (for changing oil).