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Old 03-13-2010, 10:55 PM
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I promised some of you I would post a vid of my car burning oil and here it is. Keep in mind, I just pulled in the driveway after getting off of work so the car was idling for about 3 minutes. Long enough for me to go inside to grab my camera, hit record and press the gas pedal. That happens everytime I stop then take off again.


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Old 03-13-2010, 11:10 PM
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usually id say rings are fried. seems a little odd though that it comes after the rpms start decending. Im assuming its blue, although in this vid its hard to tell.
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Old 03-13-2010, 11:12 PM
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Yea, that dont look like oil smoke from the vid.
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Old 03-13-2010, 11:16 PM
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The smoke is bluish in color, just can't tell because of the lack of lighting. And it smells just like burnt oil. Thats an unmistakable smell that you can't get confused with anything else.

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Old 03-14-2010, 01:18 AM
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Ouch, probably the rings are fried, but I have no idea why. I have never seen a 4.6L with ANY kind of cylinder wear or piston ring issues. Have you checked the compression? I suppose that it could be sucking it in somewhere, PCV maybe.
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Old 03-14-2010, 01:33 AM
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even if it was from the pcv system, still means the rings are fried. Id do a compression test, im betting you have low compression, probebly loading up the crank case instead of cylinders and basically pouring oil into your motor through the intake.
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Old 03-14-2010, 04:13 AM
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you bloused your pants kinda low :-P
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Old 03-14-2010, 05:38 AM
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Run a good compression check, and I bet you will find it is OK. I think it is the valve seals or a blocked drain down hole and the oil might be accumulating instead of draining back down to the oil pan. Good luck.

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Old 03-14-2010, 05:58 AM
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Valve stem seals. The reason it does it on decel is the vacuum pulls the oil down the guides into the combustion chamber. The mid 90's NPI motors were notorious for this issue.
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I watched your related video of the New Exhaust after the first one. When you fired it up there was a puff of smoke at first,then it went away, which is evident of bad valve seals. Oil is draining past the valves into the combustion chamber.

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