# Metal Failure

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [September 27, 2007, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/metal-failure/36050 "2007-09-27T13:00:52Z")\
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[quote=“Matt Danger,post:36,topic:36050"”]

What role does the oil filter have in all this? Are these shavings/particles simply too small to be stopped by the filter?

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Sometimes yes. The rest of the engine seems to be fairly clean, the turbo is going to have some oil in it as it takes it’s oil supply pre-filter.

The crankshaft is fed from oil passaages in the crank so when a bearing fails it usually takes that trashed material and follows the passages.

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