[Shotimes] Lets play a game what happened to my 3.0

[cmichaelo@optonline.net]

Dave,

I'm by no means an expert in this field, and I think the advice you have already received from Ron, Leigh etc is probably right on. I want to give you a word of caution though since I've had similar problem which I didn't take care promptly and I may have done more damage because of my laziness.

My car has been smoking quite a while now (years). But only when flooring it. Several members on the list had theories about leakage through rings since I didn't experience the puff on startup which would indicate valve seals etc. I'm using 1 qt per 500 miles.  But I also have some oil leaks.  I'm gonna try the Auto-Rx treatment first after fixing some known oil leaks. 

What I wanna tell you is to check the condition of your cats. If you're burning oil as much as you state that you are, I would be concerned about the condition of the cats.  See, in my case I suspect that the oil burning may also have destroyed one of my cats. It's just rattling around inside the housing. I'm sure you know how dangerous that can be for the engine. I don't think, but don't know either, if damage has happened to my engine as an outcome of this, e.g., scratched cylinder walls and therefore burning oil even more?  I'm looking into all this, but one step at time.

Michael
94MTX,green,BOS+
----- Original Message -----
From: Leigh Smith <leighsm@comcast.net>
Date: Sunday, August 8, 2004 1:50 pm
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Lets play a game what happened to my 3.0

> Rings are shot. IE: just worn out.
> Also possible you cracked one or more rings if you overheated it 
> when the
> rad blew.
> Lee
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "DAVE" <cobraii976@sbcglobal.net>
> To: "SHO" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 12:46 PM
> Subject: [Shotimes] Lets play a game what happened to my 3.0
> 
> 
> > Ok lets see if someone can figure out exactly what happened to 
> this thing
> before I pull it out and tear it down.
> > Started out puffing small amounts of smoke at start up. Then 
> gradually got
> worse when I was in the throttle and pushed the clutch pedal it 
> would do the
> James Bond smoke screen. Well not that bad but you get the 
> picture. Was
> using no oil orginally. then the wife took it in and had it 
> changed at a
> quaker state quick lube and it started using oil at the rate of a 
> quartevery 1500 miles. Then I got it back on the MaxLife and it 
> started getting
> worse. Now it's a quart every 800 miles.And this week it's just 
> puffingsmoke at idle and rolling out at throttle. it's a bluish 
> whitish smoke and
> smells like burnt oil.
> >  During this whole debacle. from Feb to Now the radiator blew on me.
> Emergency situation. and two hours for a tow truck and 9 miles to 
> home. I
> tossed a bottle of bars leak in it and crossed my fingers got it home.
> Replaced the waterpump T-Stat. Radiator. flushed the cooling 
> system. Filled
> with dexcool. and the coolant is now a nice shade of brown.
> > The really strange thing is the car runs perfectly fine pulls 
> like a
> freakin freight train. no hesisitation and the temp does not come 
> out of the
> L on Normal.
> > You know if someone diagnoses this right I'd be willing to pop 
> for a set
> of Fitz badges for them.
> > Dave
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