My friends Celica has the exact same dam problem. Originally thought it to be valve stem seals. After a bitch of a job that took a couple weeks to change 16 of the bastards, Oil consumption was just as bad as before.
The compression readinga we got from a dry and wet are pretty much EXACTLY the same as yours!
Take a look inside your throttle body and open the butterfly up, what does it look like inside? caked up with chunky oil?
Could be a PCV related problem. Or as i've been told the compression readings don't always mean your oil ring isn't stuffed, but i fail to see that bieng a problem with burning oil.
You could try an oil catch can and seeing if the oil consumption ends up in there. Or make your own oil catch can with a coke bottle and tape. (just for testing purposes, drive it for a few days to a week and see how much oil ends up in there)
route the PCV hose from the head to the bottle, and block the hole in the intake manifold that the PCV hose use to go to. Also put a hole in the top of the coke bottle so it can breath.
Wed, 10 August 2005 14:37
