Hemi burning oil

hockeydad · 2006-05-01T18:38:34+00:00

Hello All,Well, I finally gave up on my '94 1500 4x4 Ram in January and bought aleftover 2005. I got a great deal on 1500 Ram 4 x4 Thunderroad with aHemi, 11,500 off of sticker. I currently have 5000 miles on the engine. I changed the oil at 3Kwith Castrol 5w-20 as directed by the ownes manual. The engine appearsto be burning about a pint of oil every 1000 miles. At the beginning Ithought it may just be breaking in, but it is still burning the sameamount. I don't see any signs of a leak, so I'm assuming its beingburned.The engine also has a "tick" that I guess is normal. Has anyoneelse seen these 5.7liter Hemi's burn that much oil? Is it because theoil is so thin?

May 01, 2006 21 Replies

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sqdancerLynn 20 years ago

My old 95 Hyundai has 150K miles doesn't use any oil between changes I would put reg 10-30 oil in it NO SYNTHETIC and run the shet out of it to make sure the rings are seated for 100 miles then change the oil again recheck the oil usage. DO NOT USE FRAM FILTERS -- very cheaply made & very remote possibility it could be the cause of tick ???

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sqdancerLynn 20 years ago

My 95 Hyundai has 150K miles doesn't use any oil between changes. Put some

10-30 in the motor & run the shet out of it for a few miles FULL throdle from a stop accel up to 65 on the hyway & use the trans to slow down (manually down shift)maybe 12 times to make sure the rings are seated You may have just babied it too much during breakin

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