One quart in 3K miles is NOT a very small amount. Check for a blown belly
pan gasket. (My old Javelin never used up even a quarter of that...at 185K
miles.)
- Bernd
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Jim Miller
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 9:58 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Oil Consumption
Use a flashlight and look down inside the throttle body with the throttle
held
open and see if it looks oily inside the intake. You may just have a bad
belly
pan gasket and sucking oil out of the lifter gallery. The converter can
hide
some mild oil burning. However a quart in 3000 miles is very small amount
anyway.
Dirt Rider wrote:
> Howdy folks, I'm usually a list lurker, but I'm just about to run out of
the
> extended warranty on my truck. In 3000 miles, she'll have 100k.
> So anyway, it's a 98 4wd cc wth a 5.2 and an auto trans. I've been running
> synthetic since the 6000 mile oil change and changing it between 3000 and
> 4000 miles. I've noticed at the 3000 mile mark, I'm about a quart low. Is
> this acceptable consumption for a motor with this many miles on it. It's
not
> leaking out and I assume it's burning slow enough to not cause any smoke.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
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