I have a recently rebuilt engine and have been running it in. After a somewhat longer run i started to get oil smoke after the run. Posted here first..
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?threadid=230385
Did a compression test and had pretty good results, but oil on one of the plugs. Drained the oil tonight and found some metal on my drainplug. It doesnt look so good and im thinking it is a failed circlip that broke the oil ring and probably messed up the piston and cylinder. I will be tearing into the engine this week and keep updates coming.
Does anyone agree that this is probably the problem, and where can i get better cirlips, like the internal snap ring style. Would this work?
http://www.geneberg.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=wrist+pin&x=8&y=11