oil sample result help

If something was went wrong with the bearing roll, the engine would have seized by now. The oil sample will be off after any time the engine has been opened up and internal parts replaced. Keep this handy and get another sample at your next oil changed and compare the levels again. I'll bet it will be normal.

 

If you can, scan and attach the report so we can look at it. For a clearer perspective, we need to see the entire report and what the numbers are.

Copper, most times by itself without a corresponding increase in lead or tin, usually is coming from the oil cooler. Silicon is dirt, pure and simple. That would mean a lousy air filter or lousy installation of one. If bearings were the problem, you could get spikes in lead and tin to go along with copper. We need all the numbers. And one report by itself may mean nothing. It is patterns you look for over several samples. Just about anything can cause a one time spike in a wear number or contaminate, and there is no real problem.

Heavyd has it right. Shortly after and engine is opened up, all kinds of goofy things can show up on an oil sample. The next reports, combined with the one you have now, will show a better picture of things. I wouldn't let your paranoia gland grow too big just yet.

 

The lab once told me silicon refers to the state of the air cleaners.
high silicon they said means you need to replace the air cleaners

 

Nothing seams to be over 50 ppm, if you worried swing buy a cat dealer and get them to extract another sample out of the dipstick tube after 100hrs
As cowpie 1 said air cleaners

 

Yep, Silicon is indeed high. Gut would tell me to get new and better filters installed. But I am also taking into account the fact that the engine was opened up recently. That could also be the source, and it would be a one time hit. Same for Copper, which also is a little high, but not critical. All the other numbers look just fine, so I am not inclined to go with anything other than this is a one time hit on an engine that was just worked on. Tom makes a good point.. run it for a while, and have another sample run down the road. I would also have a secondary sample run elsewhere to compare at the same time. While I do not care much for Speedco, they do fairly good on oil samples. I have compared samples run by them and had a second sample from the same time line sent to my normal lab for comparison. Pretty darn close. So I would recommend taking two samples and have Cat run one and take the other to Speedco and have them run it and compare results. Sure, a little extra money, but information is what you need to make an informed decision.