oil eater

[Tatersplz]

My 91 accord ex goes through oil like a fat man. I was wondering what type of oil you guys use and what i should do about this.

[NAiL05]

Well your obviously leaking oil. Crawl underneath the car and trace the leak could be your oil pan gasket, valve cover gasket, seals and all that. For the oil pan you can tighten it since sometimes the bolts come loose. Some people like to put 10w40 on higher mileage cars to help the rings seal so yea. Also does your car blow blue smoke out the pipe?

[Tatersplz]

yeah it is blue smoke and it is really bad when i hit the gas and go fast

[cats_on_ice]

The blue smoke would most likely be caused by bad piston rings.

This is a rather expensive problem to fix.

I wish you luck!

[eightyfour84]

my mechanic told me bad rings is caused by the car overheating before? is this true? my car doesn't smoke any oil just wondering.

[Tatersplz]

all i know is last week i had to cut off my cad converter because all the exhuast was going back to the engine. So i am just trying to figure it out before i go to the shop and pay out of the butt

[tn_accords]

if you are blowing that blue or some smoke out the tailpipe then more the likely its your rings. just plan on it.. i have been going good for about 2 years with bad rings.. yes it uses oil but i am just seeing how long its going to last before eating an engine. these engines last pretty good as long as you keep up the tune up and change oil and timing belt !!

[NAiL05]

Your rings are worn you can try using 10w40 to see if that helps. Best way is to do a compression test.

[Tatersplz]

thanks for the feed back.
Now does anyone know how much that runs or if it is an easy fix??

[cats_on_ice]

Ring Job: It just might appear in the dictionary as a definition for "Difficult."

Anywhooz, here's a post from P_Adams, the ultimate Internet-Honda-Guru who tends to reside over at Honda-Tech. The original post was directed at me when I was trying to diagnose my dissapearing oil problem (which turned out to be a leaky-ass oil pan):



With regards to the observation of possible Piston Ring Issues, I'd like to offer a proceedure which might address your problem w/out tearing anything apart.
It's possible you've got rings which have frozen in their grooves, thus failing to properly seal against the cylinder bores.
Try this; it's cheap and doesn't involve tearing anything apart.

Purchase either a can of SeaFoam or GM Top Engine Cleaner (PN# 1050002). remove all four spark plugs and pour equal amounts into each combustion chamber and let sit for at least three hours.

Go get a coffee
Go "Entertain" the GF or significant other
Go get a beer, anything - just go away for three hours.

Cycle the engine several times to evacuate the excess cleaner and reinstall the plugs. Roll the car outside and start the car. You're going to enjoy a re-enactment of a WW2 Destroyer's putting a smoke screen down (that's why I suggested putting the car outside) so get ready for the Fire Dept etc.

What you've most likely got is the piston rings have gummed up in their lands and have stopped conforming to the cylinders. This will free them up.

P

[trixxy_cb7]

couple things... i believe oil pan bolts can only be tightend to 8 ft/lbs. thats like nothing. be careful. you could have a cracked piston, bad rings, or bad valve seals. you should just buy a good engine. it sounds like you have no experience in the matter. you could source a jdm engine for the price it would be to replace valve seals, head gasket, rings, pistons, hone, etc. buy a jdm motor. preferably some place near you

[Granite CB7]

Well, right now, I'm burning oil too (low mileage F22a6!), but it's NOT my rings (awesome compression), it's my valve seals. It'll being to smoke at about 5K. What's your mileage? Have you done a compression test? That will help determine what the cause is.

Dan

[Tatersplz]

you guys are right i know nothing on this matter. I drove a geo storm before i got my honda. :/ . but no i have not done any test and the car has 148000 miles. HOw much do jdm motors run??

[Ralphie]

check here http://www.jspecautosports.com/default.aspx got some nice shit. about 2k for a good motor. some come with trans and ecu and shit and some dont. they even have replacement f series on there but id just do the swap.