Metal Flakes in Oil Filter ?

[shimmy]

Originally Posted by Neil M

It might give some indication as to the source of the problem, steel flakes would be attracted to the magnet whereas alloy wouldn't, which would suggest the source being within the engine itself and not a peripheral component .

I'm glad you wrote that, I wouldn't want to embarrass myself by sounding like I didn't know one part of the engine from another

[Rfan88]

Thank you all for your valuable insight. I will go for bearing+oil pump change and hope to bring another life to my engine.

[AlexGTT]

Originally Posted by Rfan88

Thank you all for your valuable insight. I will go for bearing+oil pump change and hope to bring another life to my engine.

Do yourself a favour and never pre-diagnose. Get the engine apart and inspect everything. Once contaminated oil has circulated an engine you need to clean and flush everything and inspect every exposed component. Especially highly stressed areas - cams, finger followers, gears, cam journals/bearings, etc. Otherwise you could be opening the engine again very soon.