Burning some oil

[pr0]

Well, im preping my NT to go turbo but the car is still burning oil, was blue smoke but more white now, yet im loosing very little or no anti-freeze.

Here's what I did today, I pulled spark plugs out, they were all excellent except for on two there was oil on the middle area of the spark plug (not on the actual electrode). Electrode and gap area was clean. I'm thinking the valve cover gasket is the problem since I don't drive my car hard at all.

Let me know your thoughts... am I in the right direction?

Dealer said the VC gasket is most likely it BUT im clueless I thought my rings were fried.

Compression results: 190 190 170 165

EDIT: Compress results are actually 180 straight! I just tested today 12/20/04. The dealership was ####ing around and gave me wrong info.

 

[blackGSX2g]

I'd worry about compression numbers like that. If any one is too far off from the other, it requires servicing. A leaking VC gasket wouldn't cause burning oil, it would just cause leaking oil. Did you drop some oil in the two cylinders that were low to see if it was the rings? Try that and see if it raises compression and come back.

 

[pr0]

I'd worry about compression numbers like that. If any one is too far off from the other, it requires servicing. A leaking VC gasket wouldn't cause burning oil, it would just cause leaking oil. Did you drop some oil in the two cylinders that were low to see if it was the rings? Try that and see if it raises compression and come back.

I'll try the leak down today.

But yea about a month ago I checked my compression, it was 185 185 180 175. much better.

 

[Melio]

What brand /type of oil are you burning?

have you considered a synthetic that has a higher temp yeild?

 

[pr0]

What brand /type of oil are you burning?

have you considered a synthetic that has a higher temp yeild?

I use Quaker 5w30 now not synthetic. I used synthetic before but the smoke was incredibly blue so I switched back

 

[blackGSX2g]

What brand /type of oil are you burning?

have you considered a synthetic that has a higher temp yeild?

Any oil, synthetic or not would burn when it gets in the combustion chamber though.

 

[Melio]

I'm crossing my fingers that your compression tests are good

regardless if your pushing that much oil into the compression chamber your oil is GOING to burn yes. but this also means your blowing by and that's BAD.. it means your firing your fule/air mix into your engine block and this will destroy your cylinder wall that it's happening on.. if your compression is bad. lets cross our fingers its not!

If you did kill that piston/cylinder man I hope your in the mood to rebuild that engine.

 

[blackGSX2g]

Well, too much fuel won't hurt your cylinder walls...it'll put contaminants in your oil, then spread throughout your engine.

But yea, if it is your rings, expect to rip apart your block and at the very least get it re-honed and re-ringed.

 

[fastwaytech]

Yeah, what they said. Or you could also try Lucas Oil Stabilizer as a bandaid fix until you are ready to do the work

 

[eyebrowski]

I am having the same problem with the oil on spark plug, right below where the threads are. I am also trying to diagnose a hesitation problem in the upper RPMs and am wondering if these could be related. I plan on doing a compression test tomorrow and to also check if the rings are bad. But basically, would blowby cause my car to run shitty in the upper RPM's? Thanks