A quart a month isn't that much depending on the mileage you put on a vehicle. There a number of places it could be coming out slowly enough that you'd not easily detect it.
Bob Shell wrote: > We seem to have some people here who are pretty well informed about > cars. Let me describe the mystery I am trying to solve. I have a > 1991 Volvo 940 Turbo wagon that I really love. Has always been a > very comfortable and civilized ride. > > Oil is disappearing from the crankcase at the rate of about a quart a > month. It isn't leaking out anywhere since there is no oil on the > carport where I park it. It doesn't smoke or smell of burning oil > from the exhaust pipe when running, and it runs great. I thought > maybe it was time for a ring job, but I had my mechanic run a > compression check and it's just fine. He suggested maybe the PCV > valve was faulty, so I had him replace that, but it made no > difference. I'm just completely stumped on where this oil is going, > and so are both of the mechanics who do work for me. One suggested > putting in some Lucas oil stabilizer in place of a quart of oil, and > I tried that but it made no difference. It's a nuisance to have to > put in a quart of oil a month. > > Any suggestions? > > Bob > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
