Okay, I had a bit too much oil in my xB, drove into the mountains, really had to push it going up an incline on I-70 west of Denver. Felt the car.. "pop something loose" giving the type of lurch I got out of the car in that instant.. looked in the rearview and I'm bellowing white smoke.
Which I believe was caused but some oil "almost honey like" treatment bottle from STP I think..lasted less than a quarter mile. Did my camping, came back down, I have an oil leak. It's never leaked oil, burns it up I'm safely confident of. I changed the oil filter, the ring looked bad upon inspection.
Swapped out just fine, then I looked at my oil pan gasket that I had apparently put to much silicone on, that I replaced less than 2 months ago. I drained the oil, pulled the oil pan, cleaned it all up, put it all back together with I FAR more conservative amount of silicone... BUT!!

BUT!! Drained the old oil into a container.. I found this.

Anybody have an idea? I'm afraid to put oil in yet because I don't want to waste more money on MORE oil or worse!! I'm in over my head at this point, I'm not a mechanic.





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Whatever that is was more likely in your container than your engine.

PS: How much is a bit? Too much oil can be whipped into foam by the crank weights but you'd have to be one or two quarts over the normal amount.

 

3/4 ish range.. Reddit, and mechanics have unanimously guessed some part of a retaining clip. I have an idea where I need to look to confirm. So it falling in separately is beginning to give me hope that I'm not boned.

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Oh, is it metal? I thought it was plastic.

 

Definitely plastic, lol sorry for any confusion

 

Seriously doubt it came from your engine.

 

I was going to say PCV valve plastic but there's just no way...