Oil consumption????
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Oil consumption???? I think that I have an oil consumption problem.... heres the history: rebuilt motor, honed, re-bearing'd, absolute stage II heads, 222 224 571 574, 114LSA cam, forged rod bolts. Stock tune, runs great. Well last week, my low oil light was on. Oil pressure was still at 60 while at about 2500 rpm's 40 at idle. Checked the dip stick, and it was low. Put a quart in it, and the light went off. It happened again last night, low oil light, put half a quart in it, now its fine. Oil Pressure is still fine. Will tuning solve this problem or is it more PCV related? All of the smog crap is off the car too, smog pump, EGR valves etc. The motor has about 2700 miles on it since re-build. I used non synthetic oil 10w30 for the break in (500 miles) then switched over to Mobile 1 10w30 synthetic. Anyone have any input on this? Thank you in advance for any help.
rob
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Originally Posted by orangeapeel
How many qt.'s did you pour in? LS1's tend to "lose" oil.
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I will keep you updated......I have a couple buddies running the breather, and they said it helped out. I am sure that when I get a tune, it will help out as well....
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what is an oil breather?? My car has been sucking oil like mad lately. its not leaking...that i can tell. my change oil light came on a 2000 mi. I dont know if this is normal for these cars but it was really early and i dont run the car abnormally hard.
Originally Posted by HASTINGSRJ
you can also eliminate the PCV valves completly as well by taking all the lines off, and putting another small breather on the drivers side valve cover.
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Originally Posted by orangeapeel
Yeah, I have seen both. I was giving him a mental picture of what we were talking about.
LOL yes rob you can take them sexy pics of my car LOL. all so rob to a search that i reamber a while back that ppl running mobil1 syntetic oil was loseing and they changed ot other stuff and all so helped
ok here is only pic i chould get before camara died
ok here is only pic i chould get before camara died
Last edited by silverZ98; Feb 17, 2006 at 04:56 PM.
You may also want to try a catch can. You would be surprised how much oil can be ingested into the intake. Take a look at the back of your throttle blade to see if you have any oil on it.