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Ideally oil should never be consumed, simply cycled through the pressurized system to cool and lubricate the engine. It means you have a leak somewhere either internal or external. Also are you using high mileage or fully synthetic oil?
[quote=”jonsey1886″ post=179661]Ideally oil should never be consumed, simply cycled through the pressurized system to cool and lubricate the engine. It means you have a leak somewhere either internal or external. Also are you using high mileage or fully synthetic oil?[/quote]
No I’m not I was using synthetic but with it being consumed so quickly I started using conventional to save on money
Let me get this straight . Oil level / quantity between full and 1 quart low , until 2500 miles . Then goes low before it hits 3000 miles ? How low ?
DO NOT OPERATE THE VEHICLE LOW ON FLUIDS !
OK , an engine can either leak oil or burn oil . No oil on the ground below the car ? No oil in the coolant ? Does it have an oil cooler ?
Exhaust does not show the blue smoke characteristic ?
Check the PCV valve & that whole system .
Oil can be burned , going past the valve guides or the piston rings , or both . Either or both mean tearing the engine down to various degrees . You can do a ” dry ” and a ” wet ” compression test . This should yeald valuable information .
You have to ask your self , if you get to this point , value of the car vs. cost of repair ?
Best of luck ,
God bless
Wyr[quote=”WyrTwister” post=179677]Let me get this straight . Oil level / quantity between full and 1 quart low , until 2500 miles . Then goes low before it hits 3000 miles ? How low ?
DO NOT OPERATE THE VEHICLE LOW ON FLUIDS !
OK , an engine can either leak oil or burn oil . No oil on the ground below the car ? No oil in the coolant ? Does it have an oil cooler ?
Exhaust does not show the blue smoke characteristic ?
Check the PCV valve & that whole system .
Oil can be burned , going past the valve guides or the piston rings , or both . Either or both mean tearing the engine down to various degrees . You can do a ” dry ” and a ” wet ” compression test . This should yeald valuable information .
You have to ask your self , if you get to this point , value of the car vs. cost of repair ?
Best of luck ,
God bless
Wyr[/quote]Yes by 2500 miles from a fresh oil change the oil level is pretty much non-existent.
I’ve checked the pcv valve and it seems fine (rattles freely)
No oil cooler that I know of and no oil in coolant. No blue smoke from exhaust
Do a compression test . Write down the numbers , for each cylinder . Then squirt a little engine oil. Through the spark plug hole . Run the compression test again . Repeat for each cylinder . Write spoken the numbers .
Compare the numbers to factory speciificatioons . If low , did the numbers rise with the oil. Added. Too the cylinder ?
If low. & the number remained the same , you are loosing compression past the valves . If the number I increased , you are. Loosing. Compression past the pidton rings .God bless
Wyr
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