98 SL1 drinking oil

My wife's Saturn is drinking oil like mad. It has 118k miles and used up
exactly one quart on a 400 mile trip yesterday. Now thats just too damn
much for a days worth of driving. I should not have to add oil and gas
at the same ratio.

Doing some searching says the PCV valve could be at fault. I'll try
replacing that and see if the consumption changes.


Adam

 

Is this a DOHC? Pull the spark plug wires. If you see oil in wells then
the valve cover gaskets are bad.

 

]7, 2007, 1:45am (PDT+7) From:
] (Adam Stouffer)

]My wife's Saturn is drinking oil like mad. It has
] 118k miles and used up exactly one quart on
] a 400 mile trip yesterday. Now thats just too
] damn much for a days worth of driving. I
] should not have to add oil and gas at the
] same ratio.

It could be your headgasket. I had the same problem on a 1996 SL2.

 

A quart every 400 miles worth? I don't think so.

This car has the same problem as every other Saturn of this vintage.
It blows oil like a motherf*#&er. I heard that a friend of mine had
bought one of these recently. I made a mental note to warn him to
watch out for oil consumption. Before I could talk to him, he had
melted the motor on the third day.

The OP needs a new engine or an oil well. Replacing the PCV valve
might help a little.

 

Just have to install an oil filler neck on the front fender somewhere

Adding $2 worth of oil every week is still better than what an engine
rebuild would probably cost. The other problem is bit of hesitation when
you step on the pedal and it feels like the shift from first to second
happens too quickly. I replaced the radiator a few weeks ago because the
old one had a slow leak near the transmission cooler lines. Now we'll
see if the anti freeze is going anywhere.

One poster here said he greatly lowered the oil consumption by using
something called BG MOA http://www.bgprod.com/products/engineoil.html
It leaves me somewhat skeptical that an oil additive would fix a problem
this bad.


Adam

 

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