Re: Excess Oil consumption/fouled plug

From: Brian Tully (btully2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 12:08:18 EDT


Belly pan gasket
Brian T.

--- "Parker, Jon (GRCI)" <ParkerJ@Pragmatics.com>
wrote:
>
> My 5.2L has started to consume a lot of oil, about 1
> qt per 600 miles
> beginning about 2k ago (I have 36k total miles) -
> never consumed much
> before. Seems to be pinging more, too. There are
> no external leaks and I
> do not notice or smell any obvious burning oil while
> in operation (at
> startup or thereafter). Pulled all the plugs and
> all look fine EXCEPT the
> #8 cylinder - it looks wet fouled with oil. Could
> the manifold "belly pan
> gasket" problem I've seen others mention cause only
> one plug to look bad
> like this? What else could this be? Valve seal,
> piston ring (I hope not)?
>
> Jon - Annandale, VA
>
> '99 4x4 CC Sport, 5.2L, Auto

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