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98 SL1 drinking oil
My wife's Saturn is drinking oil like mad. It has 118k miles and used up
exactly one quart on a 400 mile trip yesterday. Now thats just too damn much for a days worth of driving. I should not have to add oil and gas at the same ratio. Doing some searching says the PCV valve could be at fault. I'll try replacing that and see if the consumption changes. Adam |
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98 SL1 drinking oil
Is this a DOHC? Pull the spark plug wires. If you see oil in wells then
the valve cover gaskets are bad. "Adam Stouffer" > wrote in message news:a9Qti.1627$MT3.351@trnddc05... > My wife's Saturn is drinking oil like mad. It has 118k miles and used up > exactly one quart on a 400 mile trip yesterday. Now thats just too damn > much for a days worth of driving. I should not have to add oil and gas at > the same ratio. > > Doing some searching says the PCV valve could be at fault. I'll try > replacing that and see if the consumption changes. > > > Adam |
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On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:21:19 GMT, "Rob" >
wrote: >Is this a DOHC? Pull the spark plug wires. If you see oil in wells then >the valve cover gaskets are bad. A quart every 400 miles worth? I don't think so. This car has the same problem as every other Saturn of this vintage. It blows oil like a motherf*#&er. I heard that a friend of mine had bought one of these recently. I made a mental note to warn him to watch out for oil consumption. Before I could talk to him, he had melted the motor on the third day. The OP needs a new engine or an oil well. Replacing the PCV valve might help a little. > > >"Adam Stouffer" > wrote in message >news:a9Qti.1627$MT3.351@trnddc05... >> My wife's Saturn is drinking oil like mad. It has 118k miles and used up >> exactly one quart on a 400 mile trip yesterday. Now thats just too damn >> much for a days worth of driving. I should not have to add oil and gas at >> the same ratio. >> >> Doing some searching says the PCV valve could be at fault. I'll try >> replacing that and see if the consumption changes. >> >> >> Adam > |
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98 SL1 drinking oil
satyr wrote:
> A quart every 400 miles worth? I don't think so. > > This car has the same problem as every other Saturn of this vintage. > It blows oil like a motherf*#&er. I heard that a friend of mine had > bought one of these recently. I made a mental note to warn him to > watch out for oil consumption. Before I could talk to him, he had > melted the motor on the third day. > > The OP needs a new engine or an oil well. Replacing the PCV valve > might help a little. > Just have to install an oil filler neck on the front fender somewhere Adding $2 worth of oil every week is still better than what an engine rebuild would probably cost. The other problem is bit of hesitation when you step on the pedal and it feels like the shift from first to second happens too quickly. I replaced the radiator a few weeks ago because the old one had a slow leak near the transmission cooler lines. Now we'll see if the anti freeze is going anywhere. One poster here said he greatly lowered the oil consumption by using something called BG MOA http://www.bgprod.com/products/engineoil.html It leaves me somewhat skeptical that an oil additive would fix a problem this bad. Adam |
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98 SL1 drinking oil
In article <a9Qti.1627$MT3.351@trnddc05>,
says... > My wife's Saturn is drinking oil like mad. It has 118k miles and used up > exactly one quart on a 400 mile trip yesterday. Now thats just too damn > much for a days worth of driving. I should not have to add oil and gas > at the same ratio. > > Doing some searching says the PCV valve could be at fault. I'll try > replacing that and see if the consumption changes. > > > Adam Read all of this thread http://www.saturnfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23676 |
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