Some of you may know that ever since I put new heads and a cam in my car, I have been burning oil; both on start-up and at WOT. I always thought it was my piston rings, so to check I did a Cylinder Balance Test with my new Innova 3145 code scanner.
I did this right after I drove home, so the car was up to operating temprature. I also, prior to doing the test, performed a KOEO and KOER test. I got a pass code on both the KOEO and KOER self-tests. So I move on to the balance test, almost sure I will find something.
It took a few minutes to go through the test. The test is done, for those who don't have this scanner, by shutting off fuel(cutting power to injectors) and monitoring the RPM changes(drop). Based on that information, the computer determines if all the cylinders are contributing equall(for proper operation), and to see if any cylinders are only partially or not contributing at all. My car was blowing smoke the whole time out the exhaust(blue smoke, oil) and I got a pass code!
At this point, I am not going to treat this like Gospel, but to me this means that my rings are not bad, or atleast not bad enough to fail the test. So what could my burning oil be???? Valve stem seals, a gasket??? I am pulling my hair out
Sorry for the long post.
I did this right after I drove home, so the car was up to operating temprature. I also, prior to doing the test, performed a KOEO and KOER test. I got a pass code on both the KOEO and KOER self-tests. So I move on to the balance test, almost sure I will find something.
It took a few minutes to go through the test. The test is done, for those who don't have this scanner, by shutting off fuel(cutting power to injectors) and monitoring the RPM changes(drop). Based on that information, the computer determines if all the cylinders are contributing equall(for proper operation), and to see if any cylinders are only partially or not contributing at all. My car was blowing smoke the whole time out the exhaust(blue smoke, oil) and I got a pass code!
At this point, I am not going to treat this like Gospel, but to me this means that my rings are not bad, or atleast not bad enough to fail the test. So what could my burning oil be???? Valve stem seals, a gasket??? I am pulling my hair out
Sorry for the long post.