Random question,
What makes an engine burn oil?
Random question,
What makes an engine burn oil?
Gone:
09 Ducati Monster 696
09 Audi Q5 3.2
03 Infiniti G35 Sedan
07 Honda Civic Coupe LX 5spd
Current:
10 BMW 335d
12 Audi Q5 2.0t
10 VW Jetta TDI
11 Ducati Monster 796
Rockefella says:
pat's sister is hawt
David Fiset says:
so is mine
David Fiset says:
do want
putting diesel in them
"Kimi, can you improve on your [race] finish?"
"No. My Finnish is fine; I am from Finland. Do you have any water?"
oil leakage
KFL Racing Enterprises - Kicking your ass since 2008
*cough* http://theitalianjunkyard.blogspot.com/ *cough*
and lets not forget that rotary engine injects into the combustino chamber under heavy load/high revs
Depression.
^^ nope, hate to break the sad news but that's covered in the page Rocke provided
Oh dear, what a question! Many reasons for oil burning actually (and I haven't read the page above). Mostly with modern engines it is valve guides after around 70,000 miles but it can be a multitude of things. Big end wear (unusual today), piston ring wear causing pressure blow-by, those are the major causes. I exclude leakages since that isn't actually consumption, just loss and will show up on your garage floor. A simple test; take the car out and warm it carefully. Now go to your nearest decent hill on a quiet day and gun the car to the top. Turn around and half way down take your foot off the accelerator and coast down, accelerating near the bottom. As you do so look carefully in the rear view mirror and see if there is a cloud of oil smoke as you accelerate. If so you have engine wear, in this case it is valves or guides. Simple isn't it?
Last edited by lowdrag; 04-15-2009 at 07:06 AM.
In my experience the oil consumption of modern engines is not the problem it used to be.
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