Thanks for the thoughts.
This is pic for scale, looks like about 1.5mm diameter spring?????
could have been very long, or multiple shorts???
It is definitely magnetic/ ferrous, feels like spring/hardened steel.
I have seen similar sized "springs" circumferentially in bearing seals, for compression i believe.
My dual row bearing seals appear intact but if I spin it i see a little oil seep out. If I understand a sealed bearing, oil should not be in there???
Could mean the circumferential compression "spring" was spat out with the seal visually intact?? Hard to imagine.....
I guess the next step is to pry open the seal to inspect the bearing? Nobody would consider putting the original dual row bearing back in if functional, would they?
Is there another large sealed bearing in the engine that could have lost it's circumferential compression "spring", that i need to be considering?
