tired at 170,000km?

[dualtips]

does anyone know y my 170 000km motor is burning oil like crazy and making some horrid top end noise?
is there some 5m problems that occur that i am unaware of?

[CanuckDave]

well a 5M burning oil is hardly abnormal :lol: without actually hearing the noise its hard to say. we can take a look / listen at the meet on sunday.

[Supra_devil]

valve stem seals are common. so are cam tower gaskets.

i wouldn't venture any more guess' myself till i saw it in person.

[Souljah]

I know a guy that had to fill up with oil everytime he filled up with gas on an '85 lol, I guess it's pretty common. He just swapped the engine. Well... started to, he got it out but didn't actually have another 1 to put in. No idea if he's done anything since then.

-Ryan

[bboy_leathel]

maybe it because ur rat baging a car that us to only run on one cylinder

[dualtips]

i hope it's just top end garbage then i just gotta get the head redone!

Ray

[dogstar]

valve stem seals probably.... mine went at 270000ish km
heard of them drying up around 60000km if the car sits for a long time without running, others have lasted half a million.

[debrucer]

my car had 186K (miles) on it when I purchased. The engine and head had washers soldered to it that said "K.Watanabe Corp" is as it turns out if a (apparently now defunct) importer of used Japanese engines. Since I took it apart I can safely say that it was "rebuilt" before, as it had .5 mm oversize pistons/rings, and the head had been shaved. btw, interesting job, when I had it shaved it was determined to have been "banana shaped" and not straightened... just shaved. I had it heated to 480 degrees for six hours and straightened, and then shaved again... also replaced both cams... redid the valves and seals, etc.

My point... original engine, K.Watanabee engine, and rebuilt engine (no matter how poorly done): that is three engines in 186,000 miles... or average of about 62K each. based on nothing more than that, I would expect one of these to use oil...

and I hope I can do it in such a way as to not need a rebuild until its' got another 186K on it :)