93_five_oh

Ok so i've noticed the smell of gasoline in my oil... i've been smelling it for a while now (as in since i've had the car, a year or so)
but i still change the oil at regular intervals, 2500-3000 miles.

i'm pretty sure it's blow by since the engine has almost 195,000 miles on it. i actually don't know what else it would be...
anyways, i was reading an article on how bad gas is for oil, etc, etc. and now i'm wondering if there is anything i can do to stop the gas from getting in the oil. besides replacing the piston rings. i don't have money for that.
do any of those additives that claim to restore compression actually work? any ideas?

thanks!

tooslow5.0

your rings ar probably going out. get your compression checked

NYMustang50

You have fuel wash/blow by. The only way to stop it is put new rings like tooslow5.0 said.

93_five_oh

dang it. [:@]
ok thanks guys. that's what i was afraid of.

Jfsram

I've had some pretty high mileage stuff.
My truck has over 500,000km's and had a Mustang with almost 300,000kms. Neither have/had gas smell in the oil.
The Mustang was also comsuming the oil at 1L / 1000kms.
Still no smell in the oil.

Make sure you don't have a leaking injector or something like that before you rip the engine out to rebuild it.

HACKGT350

do a cylinder leak down test if you want but its most likely your rings are shot