No more oil consumption!

Joshua Van Tol josh at spiny.com
Tue May 15 19:01:34 EDT 2001


>
>I find it VERY hard to believe that the engine running poorly would cause
>oil consumption.  Hopefully, by some miracle, this happened for you.  I hope
>that your car did stop using oil, I just highly doubt it will last.  I just
>wanted to tell you to keep checking your oil.....I have a feeling it will
>start using it again...BTDT.
>---

Actually, it is possible. The mechanism would be rich mixture caused 
by failed oxy sensors, causing oil to be washed off cylinder walls 
and burned. Maybe wouldn't cause this much of a problem, but it could 
cause some effect.
-- 
Joshua Van Tol -- josh at spiny.com



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