Mx3 gs engine question??????

[valoncan]

My gs 1.8 engine is got like 200km and it is burning a lot of oil.
Like there is no leaks or anything like that at all it just burns it like a lot. For like 2000 km of normal driving it burns more than a litre.
I have plans to swap the engine, but I'm just short in money so I have to drive with that engine for this winter, is there any cheap means i can do to actually extend the life for another 4 or 5 months to that engine?
I was thinking those additives at auto stores, or just keep adding oil till it dies?

Thank you in advance!!

[IanL]

Keep adding oil - it could run for another 100,000 like that.

[Redhouse]

might want to check your sparkplugs once in a while too... if you're going through that much oil with out seeing leaks... your plugs are going to get fouled eventually and start to miss...

you may have to clean/replace your plugs once in a while too..

[MX-3 Money]

Mine does the same thing, and i belive its the oil rings on the pistons, so instead of ripping the engine apart the best thing to do is just keep adding oil.

[lakersfan1]

Try an oil with a thicker hot weight. So like a 5w40 instead of a 5w30 maybe?

[mxmaz]

Yeah i have the same burning oil problem. I got a new engine to swap in but im waiting till after this winter to do it. The car has 170 000kms on it and easily goes through 2 quarts of oil every tank of gas. It's embarissing!

[valoncan]

Thanks guys!

Yeah I have brand new NGK sparks, and cables.
I have a new disty on it done just recently
new pcv valve, clean the TB once in a while, i did a fuel flush and all.
I think what screwed me up was the engine flush that I did. Honestly my engine i think got all messed up after that, and my dad told me not to do it but I still flushed the engine, payed like 80 bucks and ever since then it is just crap.

You know I also notice that it spends lot more gas too! Is that the case or it just looks like?
I mean before I could do like at least 400 to 420 with a tank, and now no matter how easy i take it on her it can never pass 380 for a tank.

[IanL]

You can get a certain amount of sealing from deposits at the top of the cylinder walls, above where the top ring reaches. If the engine flush cleared some of that away, it would explain your experience. Never mind, just do another 200,000 and you'll get it back

[lakersfan1]

You could also try an engine Restore product to try to seal it back up.

[tatsu]

You may want to double-check that your valve cover gaskets aren't leaking. Our GS was consuming about a litre of oil every 1000kms with no visible leaks - just the occasional puff of smoke when pulling away from a stop.

Since replacing those last week, oil consumption is zero to minimal - it only dropped after a 30 minute session of thrashing the motor to within an inch of its life (full throttle as often as possible and pretty much always shifting at 7,000 rpm) on some of the local twisty roads yesterday. Even with that, it only consumed about 1/2-litre of oil. Before that session, we drove it about 700kms with zero oil consumption.

Look for oil on your spark plug leads and/or in the spark plug wells. If it's there, your valve cover gaskets are leaking...

[PATDIESEL]

If oil is on the spark end it is the piston rings, if it above the threads it is the valve cover gasket, but I'd not try any additives, just keep oil in it. It will use more gas b/c the oil in the combustion chamber messes up the burn, but it should last quite awile like that. As long as you make sure you don't let the oil get too low.

[valoncan]

Thanks.

A while ago I had oil on one of my sparks, and it was only on the middle one towards the front. The rest of the plugs were dry, but the one in the middle was DIPPED in oil. I am talking about DIPPED.
Anwyays I replaced all my plugs since it was time to do so, and so far yet there is no oil on my sparks.
I changed my oil yesterday and I put 10W40 synthetic (mobil 1), also replaced my oil filter.
I bought one of those restorer engine things and my dead was pissed of at me.
He was like, damn when are you going to learn, these things are waste of money, better give your money to someone in need than spend it on this trash, so he didn't let me put that thing on my engine, and i had to take it back to crappytire.
Was he right?

[valoncan]

(forgot)

I mean i know that some of you told me to put restorer thing and das what i figured too, but my dad was like so convincing that it is not a good thing to put that he actually changed my mind.

[Nallboy]

I've heard many different opinions about those restorer things. From personal experience: about a year and a half ago my dad's Jeep Cherokee had a rod start knocing pretty badly when we were hauling our kart trailer back from Daytona (I race go-karts), he had like 170k miles on it. It's a 2001! Anyways, he put that Restore stuff in at his next oil change and, like the can says, about 500 miles or so later the knocking stopped. He's added it at every oil change since then. He's got over 240k miles on it now and it hasn't knocked since. I use it in my daily driver RS. Don't know what kind of difference it makes since I cleaned/rebuilt the engine whe I replaced the tranny a few months back. When I get my ZE in, I'll be using full synthetic, so there'll be no need for the stuff.

[IanL]

It's a good idea to do a Google search on "Federal Trade Commission dodgyproduct" where dodgyproduct is whatever you're interested in checking out. Very revealing.

Personally, I'd put these things on a par with Lord_Matt's choice here .