burning oil?
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burning oil?
Ok I just reciently had my truck services with the usual oil change, and apearantly I am burning oil, its not a lot, but its enough to make me concerned and want to fix the issue, granted its 16 years old but shouldn't be burning oil I don't think, now when I took it in it was down a quart of oil (5 left) so what I would like to know is what could be causeing the "burning of oil" and how I might be able to remedy the issue.
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Use will cause you to burn oil. I've tried a couple band aid things. Heavier weight oil, I'm running 10w40 in winter and 15w40 in summer. That cut it down a little. I also ran a can of "Restore" engine treatment through it once. It made it smoke like hell til I changed the oil again, but it doesn't burn nearly as much now. So I'm not sure what it did exactly beside **** my motor off, but it helped.
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My old 5.0 was burning it pretty heavily. I suspected the valve guides were worn so one weekend I removed them and took them to a machine shop and they did a valve job, got the heads back the same day. Put it all back together and it completely solved the issue. $300, two days and a lot of beer I was back on the road.
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ill give that all a try, as for the shop work it may be a bit of time before I can get to the work so im just trying to resolve it as best as I can or at least minimize the burning, I know its going to happen as its an older truck but I just want to try and lessen how much is burned off and how fast its happening...as best as I can..
also for the garage work I haven't torn an engine down before, and don't really have the place or space to do so (or another car to use while doing so) so I have to leave it to a shop if im going to have that done, I do know what your refering to I believe but would rather leave it to the pros to do...just safer that way IMO
again thanks for all the help
also for the garage work I haven't torn an engine down before, and don't really have the place or space to do so (or another car to use while doing so) so I have to leave it to a shop if im going to have that done, I do know what your refering to I believe but would rather leave it to the pros to do...just safer that way IMO
again thanks for all the help
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My current 5.8 doesn't require any topping off throughout the oil change, never loses a drop. It has 233k on it and when I change it it still looks almost new. I think I got lucky there, it has to have been rebuilt.
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My 351w has 93k on it. Every 3k I lose about a quart now. I was losing 3-4qts between changes before I ran the Restore through it. I'm fully prepared for whatever got fixed by that to let lo0se at about 4500-5500 RPMs and blow the motor up though. The PO was a farmer...Need I say more?
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My 5.8 loses about a quart between changes. But I'm almost positive its a leaking rear main seal.
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Lucas oil stabilizer. If I hadnt used it myself I wouldnt believe it works. Went form burning a qt a week on a E250 5.4L to about a qt a month.
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ok thats what I was thinking of, Lucas, ill give some of those things a try and see what happens, if it safe to put Lucas in at every oil change or when ever I top off oil or will that cause issues with the engine? im fine with doing it only at each oil change if thats the case, but if I can put it in every so many weeks or what ever (or when I top off oil as needed) im cool on that also...
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