High Oil Consumption
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Not sure. My hope was that there would be some residual unburned product coming through still glowing, but it has been hard to tell so far.
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Um excuse me ! I had a guy work on my 2001 Ram and knocked my timing out to non running and got it back but it ran long enough to fry my plentum/ gaskets. Long story short. Wasn't worth what I thought was a saving in mechanic work. Just had my plentum replaced with the Hughes and I still have the smoke. Do I have to change the new plugs I had just put in before I let that guy work on it ? Thanks in advance. Oh, It only smokes when tromped on. First time was grey, second time more black. That's why I thought maybe new plug's.
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Black smoke is running rich.
Turning the distributor changes injector timing, it does nothing about ignition timing. It is possible to turn the distributor so far, that it is trying to fire the wrong plug, but, that's about it. Injector timing being off can make it hard to start, and run like crap.
How many miles on the truck?
Turning the distributor changes injector timing, it does nothing about ignition timing. It is possible to turn the distributor so far, that it is trying to fire the wrong plug, but, that's about it. Injector timing being off can make it hard to start, and run like crap.
How many miles on the truck?
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Hi all,
Just did an oil consumption test on the my 97 ram 2500 120k miles (5.9L V8 gas). I have apparently consumed about 1.25 QT of 10W-30 in only 600 miles of usual driving. Yikes. I don't like that.
- I do not appear to have any leaks even remotely nearing this magnitude (but I am double checking with some flourescent oil dye to be sure)
- I have not seen smoke exiting the tailpipe in cold or warm starts (I'd imagine if a lot of oil was passing the piston rings and getting combusted I would see the truck throwing significant blue-ish smoke esp on cold start before the rings have temp expanded to the cylinder walls, maybe that is not true)
- I pulled the air cleaner and looked down the throttle body with the throttle open. I attached pics of what I saw. It looks like some gunk on the surface facing up, I guess it may be gunked up engine oil.
From what I've read it seems it could be due to a bad PCV valve or intake plenum gasket. Still weird as I would think I would see smoke if these were the issues, but nonetheless. Any advice before I start throwing parts at it?
Thanks,
Nick
Just did an oil consumption test on the my 97 ram 2500 120k miles (5.9L V8 gas). I have apparently consumed about 1.25 QT of 10W-30 in only 600 miles of usual driving. Yikes. I don't like that.
- I do not appear to have any leaks even remotely nearing this magnitude (but I am double checking with some flourescent oil dye to be sure)
- I have not seen smoke exiting the tailpipe in cold or warm starts (I'd imagine if a lot of oil was passing the piston rings and getting combusted I would see the truck throwing significant blue-ish smoke esp on cold start before the rings have temp expanded to the cylinder walls, maybe that is not true)
- I pulled the air cleaner and looked down the throttle body with the throttle open. I attached pics of what I saw. It looks like some gunk on the surface facing up, I guess it may be gunked up engine oil.
From what I've read it seems it could be due to a bad PCV valve or intake plenum gasket. Still weird as I would think I would see smoke if these were the issues, but nonetheless. Any advice before I start throwing parts at it?
Thanks,
Nick
