99CamaroSS
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I bought new valve seals, so I will give that a try. I believe ARE uses moly rings.quote:
Originally posted by Bullet:
This is correct, although the seals may be faily new, they would be a little on the high side of tolarances. This is cheap if you can do it yourself. I did mine buy pulling all plugs, putting rope down the plug hole and rotating the engine until it bined.quote:
Originally posted by Jimbo:
Bad intake valve stems/guides/seals certainly can lead to heavy oil consumption. High vacuum conditions, that is, idle and engine braking will tend to pull oil down the intake guides. Bad oil control rings will merely use more oil proportional to rpms. I notice a lot of complaints about oil consumption on late model US engines, such as the Ford V-10, Olds Aroura V-8 and GM 4.3 V-6.
On a side note, was this short block assembled with chrome rings? If so, it may take that kind of milage to seat the rings.
On a side note, remove the pcv valve hose and plug it and let the engine breath into the air. if oil consumption decreases them you have a pcv problem.