burning oil like crazy... wtf?
- Thread starter Mr.Ames
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Boricua86 said:
i had that happen when i spun my rod bearing, my engine dumped all kinds of oil and metal shavings into my coolant. you should see the inside of my overflow tank, its not pretty. but i had a coolant flush done on it, so im not runnin all that crap through my engine anymore
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- Protege5 2003
redpr5 said:
If all that crap was cleaned out by the flush what's to see on the inside of your overflow tank? Didn't that get cleaned out too?
Mr.Ames said:
its running rich. i would stop running that car because if you run tooo rich, your gonna hear knocking in your motor.
if you can smell gas on your plugs, then thats unburned fuel sitting on the plugs.
make sure all your intake work is fine. everything. including the manifold.
or it could be wat i mentioned before. bad piston rings on a certain cylinder.
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IIRC, the range is 140-170 psi? 100 sounds low to me.
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i12drivemyMP5 said:
I would expect 160-200ish
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- 03.5 YLW MSP
lol yeah a proper working gauge might help just a weee bit!Mr.Ames said:
Thread Jack:
On a side note im leaking oil bad now! I'm still tryign to figure out ifits my rear main seal or oil pan. This weekend ill have to throw the car up on ramps, clean the bottom end of the motor with shop wrags. Then take it for a short drive and throw is backup on the ramps to see if its the oil pan or rear main. Sound like fun right? If its the pan who all thinks that it would be a good idea to replace the bearings while I have the pan off beings that the car has 153k on it.
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Sorry I had to thread jack as I feel that what I mentioned above about how i'm going to try and find my source or oil consuption or leakage might. It help someone else latter on down the road.
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ok so i bought the car used from a dealer but i also bought warranty (thank god). is this considered a rebuild or a new motor? my synchro rings in my tranny are all worn out too, so if i'm going to make a warranty claim, i might as well do it all. I have a $200 deductible, i should tell them to replace the a/c controls too.
Mr.Ames said:
chill. Just trying to help here...
-soot is normal - we all have it.
-is the smoke from the tailpipe itself (confirmed/visual) OR could it be oil dripping on the hot exhaust/cat and smoking? This would have a big cloud of blue smoke as well.
If truly burning - the plugs would be oily/gooey. Soot means normal for us - so i still tend to believe it might be an external leak.
i didn't read back - so please forgive me - but did you put this on a rack or jack it to see completely underneath?
(yupnope)
i just had the oil changed at the dealer and i went under the car with them. there is no oil leaking anywhere on the outside of my motor. and yes, i got my dad to rev my car so i could make sure the blue smoke was coming out of the exhaust pipe. I got a new compression gauge today so i'll do another test
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