Found during oil change

[carmine]

Hello Iccars

This is how i analyzed debre

Actually Joey made it easy because he posted a picture of debre next to a ruler so can use to scale the piece he found.
If u scale the piece in picture by filling in whats missing from the circular shape that it would have had, when it was in one piece it would be no bigger than .750 inch dia. and tapered end tip width of less than 3/32 or .093 inch.

I then measured the diameter of a damper spring that had lying around and came in at 1.150 inch dia. with a tapered end tip width of aprox .165 inch.

Then measureed dia of valve seal clip i had and it came in at .675 inch dia. with a tapered end tip width of aprox .062 inch.

My thoughts on what might have happened is that somehow the valve seal clip was broken during install or fatigued because of poor material and workmanship ? heat treat when made ( made in china) or a combination of and broke later. The piece shown and the rest of the clip then jammed itself between spring and locked valve train for split second thus bending pushrod.