Big Problem Here

[bentley429]

Ok, so heres what happend. Saturday morning I wash my car, and check the fluids and all looks well. When Iam coming home the motor starts ticking alittle and my oil pressure really started to drop. By that time I was pretty close to home so I made it. But when I checked my oil I wanted to kick myself in the ass for driving it, it lost about 2 quarts in 2 hours of driving it. So I start looking around for a blown gasket and I didnt find anything. So I thought maybe the oil went into the coolant system, so I checked my radiator and there is no oil surfaced on the top. Please help, unforturatly my father is a jerk and wont take a look at it with me.

 

[stang22]

Please help, unforturatly my father is a jerk and wont take a look at it with me.

I'm sorry bro!


If you are positive that you have no leaks, the oil level was good before you left and you have no traces of any oil in the water, then you must be starting to burn some oil. That's a lot to burn in 2 hours, but I guess its possible. Monitor it and make sure you are positive that you don't have any leaks.

How many miles are on the car?

Tim

 

[bentley429]

I'm sorry bro!


If you are positive that you have no leaks, the oil level was good before you left and you have no traces of any oil in the water, then you must be starting to burn some oil. That's a lot to burn in 2 hours, but I guess its possible. Monitor it and make sure you are positive that you don't have any leaks.

How many miles are on the car?

Tim

Its got real low miles, 65k thats why I dont really understand this. Could it possibly be the heads being warped or something? Ive basicly babyed the thing since Ive had it, Ive had it for about 2 months now, done 2 burnouts, and only seen what it really can do afew times. A friend of mine has one that he beats the snot outta with 200k and it only burns alittle. Hopefully someone knows the answer. But Iam gonna go outside again and take another look now.

 

[stang22]

Fill it full of oil and mark the dipstick. A stock engine is full with 5 quarts of oil. Monitor it just to make sure it wasn't a fluke or the mark was wrong.

Tim

 

[04sleeper]

Are you sure those aren't your burnouts?????? J/K

If you are burning that much oil you should notice it on the plugs. How do they look?

 

[bentley429]

Are you sure those aren't your burnouts?????? J/K

If you are burning that much oil you should notice it on the plugs. How do they look?

Actually the one where you can see that I grabbed second is lol. But actually I havent even checked the plugs, but thats good idea and I'll go do that.

 

[bentley429]

I think one thing Iam gonna to is fill it up with nonsynthetic oil so if there are any minor leaks they get pluged up again and run a thicker oil.

 

[HISSIN50]

what weight of oil is in there now?

 

[bentley429]

what weight of oil is in there now?

its got 5w-30 and Iam gonna put 10w-30 in instead. I had the 5w left over from the winter so I used that, maybe this will help with a thicker oil.

 

[HISSIN50]

you would not be the first to burn 5W-30 if it was hot out and you were on the highway for some time (hence my asking).

Good call with the viscosity swap. Good luck.

 

[bentley429]

you would not be the first to burn 5W-30 if it was hot out and you were on the highway for some time (hence my asking).

Good call with the viscosity swap. Good luck.

Yea, it was around 90 out and I was on the highway for about 2 hours total.

 

[bentley429]

Incase anyone is interested, I put the 10w-30 in and the oil pressure went right back up and Iam just going to monitor it. Thanks for the help

 

[ALMOSTFINISHED]

Since you changed the oil and put 5 quarts in, make a new scribe mark on the dipstick where the 5 qts are at. The dipsticks sometimes tend to be a bit screwy in these cars. Maybe when you checked it the dipstick was hung up on the lip of the tube and couldn't get al the way down, and the car had been a bit low on oil. I'm not doubting your mechanical capabilities at all. Just thinkin of different ways of losing 2 qts in 2 hours-hopefully not. Good luck and keep us posted on things.

Nick

 

[bentley429]

Since you changed the oil and put 5 quarts in, make a new scribe mark on the dipstick where the 5 qts are at. The dipsticks sometimes tend to be a bit screwy in these cars. Maybe when you checked it the dipstick was hung up on the lip of the tube and couldn't get al the way down, and the car had been a bit low on oil. I'm not doubting your mechanical capabilities at all. Just thinkin of different ways of losing 2 qts in 2 hours-hopefully not. Good luck and keep us posted on things.

Nick

Thats a good idea, I'll have to do that. Has this happend to you before? J/W