Oil Consumption woes or normality?

[Larry C Leung]

Also do a leakdown test (hopefully this will show a valve rather than
bottom end problem!). And finally, valve guides (old VW Golf 1 problem). 

LL - NY

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:39:28 -0400 "Leah and David Mueller"
<muellerl at cadvision.com> writes:
>Thanks Huw. I would say that it is being burned.  Engine and floor of 
>garage
>are very clean. I will check compression.  Then if that looks 
>reasonable, go
>to the valve seals.  The car does emit some smoke before warmed up, so 
>that
>makes sense to me.  I don't know about doing this myself, but I am 
>more game
>for this as I gain some more experience.  There is always a first 
>time, but
>could I get in over my head with this, or just have to give up and 
>take the
>car to someone else?  By 'over my head', I mean could I scew something 
>up so
>that the repair is far past what I bargained for?  Like losing 
>pressure and
>having something fall into the cylinder? What pressure do you feed the 
>air
>into the cylinders at?  I then change seals and then lifters after?  I 
>have
>Bentley and Haynes manuals.  I am good at reading instructions.  Just 
>may
>have some silly questions to start with. Is this kind of stuff on your 
>site
>too Huw?
>
>David
>
>> changing the lifters will quiet them.
>> oil consumption could be..
>> leaky valve stem seals (see earlier post!)
>> leaking or damaged rings
>> scored or worn cylinders
>> these three burn the oil, so it sorta disappears.
>
>