I really don't think Rupert Wimpshank would have done that...he is a very upstanding person and highly regarded individual. Maybe he had the shakes that day and just dropped them ??

 

Or got a good look at that hot babe over in camshafts and fogged up his glasses....

 

this is quite possible but how the heck would they get in the oil pan?

i don't think they're spacer #37 savannah bc the inner diameter is very small.. 4mm?

 

Rupert Wimpshank ? lol i have no clue what this means but that is the funniest name i've heard since Turd Fergeson

 

Is the spacer for the oil pickup present & accounted for?

 

I think I see it in the picture, but that is why I mentioned it in the drawing. The other parts securing it in the picture were not found, but might have drained out. I suspect these may extras of the same spacer, perhaps fumbled and dropped in during assembly. Supervisor Payne Diass missed it. In domestic vehicle doors, they usually squirt in some sealant that is sticky and traps small parts that are dropped in, to prevent noises that cause warranty service calls.

However, if the one spacer that holds the pickup tube is missing, vibration will cause the pick up tube to bounce and crack, which would reduce oil flow, sucking in air from top of sump. That strainer on the end of a hoizontal tube should not have any movement. The spacer and some nuts/washers go on a stud near the strainer. This needs to be well connected.

 

Fingers crossed with the photos, but here's the pickup spacer.

 

And the pix of the previously used pickup spacer show marks from installation on the end of the spacer. If the ones found in the pan show no signs of ever having been torqued down, that might lean toward the fell in at the factory idea, no matter what size they are or what their use was on the engine.

 

Ya when I use to paint cars for a living I used glass marbles to act as agitators in the spray gun to keep the metalic particles from falling to the bottom and not keeping uniform ... worked for me. had those marbles for years...

 

Yep, a glass marble is what makes a rattle can - rattle.