MaxLife has not lowered my oil consumption...

[buster]

After only 1,300 miles on my 3rd fill of MaxLife, I'm down 1/2qt. My car is consuming oil at a much greater pace than it used to. I'm now at 167,000 miles. Car runs excellent.

Looking back, I wish I had broken-in the engine harder, but I didn't. However, some of these 2.4L's have oil consumption that is normal for this engine make. Low tension rings and possible poor oil ring control.

I may step up to Mobil 1 0w40 or Mobil 1 High Mileage 5w20 next. Going to run the ML out awhile longer. I thought the ML 10w30 would curb it a bit, but it has had no impact on reducing it.


In ML"s defense, no oil ever has reduced it other than Mobil 1 Advanced Fuel Economy, but I have to think that was a one time fluke at this point.

 

[OtisBlkR1]

feed the monster !

 

[Sayjac]

A bit off topic, but on the 2.4L dipstick is 1/2qt. low half way down in the safe area or to the bottom of the safe zone?

 

[Hermann]

Have you thought about doing a overnight piston soak, since the plugs are so easy to get to? It just might be stuck oil control rings. At 167K a qt every 2500 miles is not horrible comsumption IMO.

When I had my 2005 I-4 Accord it rarely used any oil in 5K changes. Loved my Accord's engine and transmission, but the rest of the car was an appliance, hated the numb steering.

 

[zerosoma]

unfortunately there is no hope for you, my friend.

 

[Hyde244]

If a 10w30 isn't helping with oil consumption, I'd advise against using a lighter Mobil 1 High Mileage 5w20.

We'll be trying out luck with Maxlife on my girlfriend's 2.7L Sebring, which is also consuming 1 quart for everyone 1,000 miles. I'm not expecting Maxlife to have any real impact following the years of neglect this car received, but there is no harm in trying.

 

[KCJeep]

If Maxlife doesn't help your consumption, no other oil likely will either IMO unless you just go thick, which sounds like your next plan of attack anyway.

 

[Roadkingnc]

That isn't excessive consumption, visible blue smoke is excessive consumption. I would just keep running it and find something else to worry about.

 

[buster]

Originally Posted By: zerosoma
unfortunately there is no hope for you, my friend.

 

[buster]

Originally Posted By: Roadkingnc
That isn't excessive consumption, visible blue smoke is excessive consumption. I would just keep running it and find something else to worry about.


Agree. I'm just playing around to see what can lower it.

May step up to a thicker 30 grade. Great car and engine regardless.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

My son has a 96 Corolla, 1.8, 199K miles. He was losing about a qt. every 1K-1.5K miles. Someone in this forum suggested he try a 10W30 or 10w40 High Mileage oil.
He started using Super Tech 10w40 High Mileage oil and the consumption has decreased slightly (just shy of a qt. now, every 1K miles). He also has noticed a smaller leak on the plywood he puts under the engine.

 

[REDDOG]

Originally Posted By: KCJeep
If Maxlife doesn't help your consumption, no other oil likely will either IMO unless you just go thick, which sounds like your next plan of attack anyway.


+1. Nor would I worry about it. I do understand it's fun to play around though!

 

[danthaman1980]

GC or T6.

 

[buster]

I've tried thicker oils in the past, and they didn't work. Seems to be the nature of this engine.

I'll give it a shot again.

 

[Danno]

Originally Posted By: BlueOvalFitter
He also has noticed a smaller leak on the plywood he puts under the engine.

Reminds me of the time I was using a piece of cardboard under my 1978 turbo Regal for the oil leaks. It was a garaged car. I parked in the garage and after about 15 minutes, I noticed the smoke coming from the eves of the garage. Lucky I was outside doing some yard work and noticed it. The cardboard had caught on fire. I pushed the car away from the oily cardboard fire and put the fire out.
Seems like the turbo cross over exhasut pipe was really hot and really close to the cardboard.

I put the fire out and no harm no damage to house or car.

In hind sight, I should have left the Regal POS burn to the ground.....

http://www.productioncars.com/vintage-ads.php/Buick/Regal

Second ad from the bottom - exact same car.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

Back in the day when I was building engines and racing I would come across some major oil drinking SBC engines. I would run Kendall Nitro 70wt. in them just to get a few more miles before rebuilding them.

 

[UNC017]

Some advice: put your vehicle in your signature so we can no what kind of "2.4" you're talking about.

Second, put some sort of oil separator in the PCV line and see if that's where all your oil is going. ESPECIALLY if this is a Chrysler 2.4. I just re-posted a picture of the self-draining oil separator I put on my wife's 2.4L PT a couple of years ago, which reduced oil consumption by about 1/3:

http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubb...918#Post2960918

I'm convinced a bigger/better separator would eliminate consumption almost completely because I don't think the ENGINE itself is burning a significant amount of oil apart from what it snorts thru the PCV.

 

[buster]

^ interesting, thanks.

Honda 2.4L. 2005. Runs like new with 167,000 miles.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

Originally Posted By: 440Magnum
Some advice: put your vehicle in your signature so we can no what kind of "2.4" you're talking about.

Second, put some sort of oil separator in the PCV line and see if that's where all your oil is going. ESPECIALLY if this is a Chrysler 2.4. I just re-posted a picture of the self-draining oil separator I put on my wife's 2.4L PT a couple of years ago, which reduced oil consumption by about 1/3:

http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubb...918#Post2960918

I'm convinced a bigger/better separator would eliminate consumption almost completely because I don't think the ENGINE itself is burning a significant amount of oil apart from what it snorts thru the PCV.


I have done this in the past on a few of my hot rods. I had all the fittings at work but bought the canisters from Graingers. They have a HUGE selection of compressor and pump separators.

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/start.shtml

 

[JamesBond]

I had a Chrysler 2.4 that I always used to fill up to the top mark on the dipstick and it would burn down to the middle of the stick in just a couple hundred miles, so I'd fill it back up and continue the cycle. It took me a while to figure out that if I left the oil level at the middle of the stick it wouldn't burn ANY oil over the rest of the OCI! See if maybe your engine just burns oil to a certain level then stops. I know this can be difficult to do for OCD, BITOG types.

The '05 2.4 Accord I change the oil on never burns any oil during an oil change and was not broken-in hard, so I don't think it makes that much difference.