This engine has been contaminated with metal . I am amazed it did not fail catastrophically. The good news is that valves did not hit pistons. The bad news is that it needs to be torn down to retrieve all the bearing bits that have been traveling through the engine. Some folks may tell you that you can flush the system and replace the bearing (though it looks like the IMS itself is trashed), but I think there's no way to flush the engine of all of that metal without a tear down...
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