White plastic bit found in engine oil

[supermike]

Found this plastic bit in my oil when I did the oil change. What could that be? It’s form a 6.4 L HEMI with 5000 miles.

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[longfiredragon]

I haven't removed my freedom panels yet on my Wrangler, but I did look up there a little the other day. I want to say it kinda looks like the tip of one of the locating pins off a freedom panel. I am sure others with more knowledge may chime in.

Now how it got there is anybody's guess. Don't believe the motors are assembled in the same place as the Jeep, so who knows.

 

[supermike]

I haven't removed my freedom panels yet on my Wrangler, but I did look up there a little the other day. I want to say it kinda looks like the tip of one of the locating pins off a freedom panel. I am sure others with more knowledge may chime in.

Now how it got there is anybody's guess. Don't believe the motors are assembled in the same place as the Jeep, so who knows.

thanks, but the locating pin is like 2-3x larger than this small piece.

 

[longfiredragon]

Right, you are correct, I looked again at lunch and it is not the pin for the freedom tops. Maybe it is a locating pin for when they assemble part of the motor, and they broke it off, and didn't notice, or they did notice and said screw it cause the oil pan was already installed and it rolled down in there.

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