Ok, so my 2000 seems to be using a little bit of oil...
BUT, there is no smoke coming from the exhaust, cant smell it in the exhaust... nadda.
I havnt checked the intake for blowby or anything yet, but I dont see why the car would be getting blowby with only 93k on it. I guess I can pull some intake hoses and see if they are oily.
So anyway, when I changed it oil and filter I put in 5 quarts as reccomended in the manual. I checked the oil after the change and it seemed at the full mark, but kind of hard to tell since the oil was fresh and lite colored. A few days later I checked it and noticed it was a little below the line. Let if be for some time, like untill last week (a few weeks pretty much) and it hadnt gotten much lower. MAYBE a little bit, but im not sure. But I added some oil last week and maybe I didnt add enough, but its hardly up from the mark it was at.
So whats the deal... 5 quarts and its not full. Does that 5 quarts not include what the oil filter soaks up? Ive made some good runs on the engine during this period of time, but it still doesnt seem like it should be using oil even at that. My old Jeep engine with almost 160k stays at the full line for the whole 3k oil change interval. Wtf gives?
BUT, there is no smoke coming from the exhaust, cant smell it in the exhaust... nadda.
I havnt checked the intake for blowby or anything yet, but I dont see why the car would be getting blowby with only 93k on it. I guess I can pull some intake hoses and see if they are oily.
So anyway, when I changed it oil and filter I put in 5 quarts as reccomended in the manual. I checked the oil after the change and it seemed at the full mark, but kind of hard to tell since the oil was fresh and lite colored. A few days later I checked it and noticed it was a little below the line. Let if be for some time, like untill last week (a few weeks pretty much) and it hadnt gotten much lower. MAYBE a little bit, but im not sure. But I added some oil last week and maybe I didnt add enough, but its hardly up from the mark it was at.
So whats the deal... 5 quarts and its not full. Does that 5 quarts not include what the oil filter soaks up? Ive made some good runs on the engine during this period of time, but it still doesnt seem like it should be using oil even at that. My old Jeep engine with almost 160k stays at the full line for the whole 3k oil change interval. Wtf gives?