Peter,
Don't you hate that. You don't know to be happy or dumbfounded. I don't
have an answer, only to say I had a Honda Civic (1978) that never leak, had
only the slightest perceptible smoke and went through a quart of oil every
50 miles. With that consumption you would think that I would have looked
like a moving forest fire. Tom Witt
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Stanisavljevich <pete_stanisavljevich@coxtarget.com>
To: Tiger List (E-mail) <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:05 AM
Subject: Non-Tiger - But Interesting
> Listers,
>
> Have a interesting situation with my daily ride, maybe somebody on the
list
> has an explanation, because I certainly don't.
>
> I have an '84 Toyota Supra, bought new and that now has 182K miles on it.
> Recently, it started using a lot of oil, a quart every two weeks during
the
> routine 24 mile daily commute. The car had never leaked or burned oil, but
a
> glance in the rearview mirror when pulling away from a stop light told me
> where the oil was going. A black sooty tailpipe confirmed it.
>
> This was going on for a few weeks, with me thinking it's the end of the
road
> for the old warhorse. Then the original water pump failed. The temperature
> gauge never showed anything abnormal, the pump didn't leak coolant but
just
> had the bearing fail making it very noisy.
>
> I replaced the water pump (the old pump impellor was intact), and doing so
> also seemed to have solved the oil consumption problem. No smoke at stop
> lights and the oil level hasn't moved for a month. Tailpipe a nice clean
> chocolate brown again
>
> Can anybody tell me how these two events can be related?
>
> Peter S.
> B9471799
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