Burning oil

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By 95projektvic
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:53 am #89184 mostly likely. have a friend watch the exhuast while you give gas. and see if it's blowing out blueish smoke. if it is....your rings are prolly shot.
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By Sentry
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:13 am #89208
95projektvic wrote:mostly likely. have a friend watch the exhuast while you give gas. and see if it's blowing out blueish smoke. if it is....your rings are prolly shot.

Or just look in the rearview.

My old 91 DX smoked a bit under acceleration. Not noticable to the average schmoe.
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By 95projektvic
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:24 pm #89284
Sentry wrote:Or just look in the rearview.


hahaha yea....didn't occur to me.
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By biretsu89
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:36 pm #89307 Orrr..... check your spark plugs and see if they are gummed up with oil... my old d15z1 had blown piston rings and was burning oil.... I would sand blast the spark plugs during auto class so they wouldnt get to gummed up

By Macster
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:11 am #89361 Turbo Rebuild FTW
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By 95projektvic
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:53 am #89390
biretsu89 wrote:Orrr..... check your spark plugs and see if they are gummed up with oil... my old d15z1 had blown piston rings and was burning oil.... I would sand blast the spark plugs during auto class so they wouldnt get to gummed up


if ur spark plugs are getting gummed up up from oil then there is obviously a leak.
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By RevinEK
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:37 am #90997 could be the valve seals too? does it puff on first start up after sitting for a while, and stops once warm, or only under hard acceleration aka all hondas :D
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By boosted94
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:24 pm #91182 Checking your compression will easily determine valve seals or rings. If the rings were bad you would probably note some power loss do to loss of compression.

Compression tester not very expensive.
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By d-mon
- Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:55 pm #91511 compression test will only confirm if there is a leak.
you need a leakdown test to determine whether its valve seals or rings.
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By pacmanlives
- Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:50 pm #91558 My 90 accord that has over 200k and burns some oil. I do not see it burning the oil, but I see it collecting at the end of the tail pipe. You might want to look there.

Depending on your car if it is like mine and has high miles the rings are not that good.

You could throw some Restore 4 when you change the oil next. A buddy of mine swears by it.
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By DuhQbnSiLo
- Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:30 am #91755
pacmanlives wrote:My 90 accord that has over 200k and burns some oil. I do not see it burning the oil, but I see it collecting at the end of the tail pipe. You might want to look there.

Depending on your car if it is like mine and has high miles the rings are not that good.

You could throw some Restore 4 when you change the oil next. A buddy of mine swears by it.


ill do that
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