Travis (I assume),
Now that Muskrat has you (rightly) taking off the bottom sump plate to clean the strainer, examine what lies on top of it and, I recommend, report back here before reassembly. You'll want to know what kind of metal bits lie there, if any. We'll assume you have a stock sump plate, so a lot of oil will probably spill out when you remove it. Regardless of giving your hands an oil bath, try to keep the plate level as you remove it so that any telltale bits don't wash out of view. The main thing you'll be looking for is shards of shim material used between the drive-side main bearing and the crank web. If your sump plate is indeed stock, consider replacing it with one from SRM that includes a drain plug.
Richard L.