My Mazda 626 1992 consumes too much oil

Mar 15, 2006 4 Replies

My car consumes too much oil every two days I have to add oil. I have check for leaks and I didn't find anything. Can anyone please help me???



If you're *CERTAIN* there are no leaks, then the only other culprit is that you're burning it. Which means valve guides and/or rings are shot, which means that unless you're mechanically inclined enough to do it on your own, it needs to go into the shop for an engine rebuild or swap.

Or do what my dad did.... he'd go to garages and ask for the old used oil, then filter it through cheesecloth and add it to the crankcase. I remember road trips where we stopped for oil more often than for gas.

--scott

"Kbebop" wrote: 1992 Mazda 626

My car consumes too much oil. Every two days I have to add oil. I have check for leaks and I didn't find anything. Can anyone please help me??? ____________________________________________

The oil may be flowing up past the pistons and down past the valve stems into the combustion chambers, where it is being burned. If so, the exhaust will have a lot of blue-white bad-smelling smoke.

If there is no blue-white smoke, then there is a leak somewhere. If there is no oil puddle on the parking place, oil could be dripping out of engine seals under pressure during highway driving.

Good luck.

Rodan. ____________________________________________

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