[Healeys] high oil consumption

[Bob Spidell]

What brand/viscosity oil is he using?

If it really isn't leaking it can only be burning it; I'd expect quite a 
bit of blue smoke out the tailpipe.  My BJ8's engine was rebuilt a 
couple years ago and uses some, less than this one, but isn't leaking 
it--I was under it yesterday--and I only get a little blue smoke after a 
long downhill run in gear.

Bob

On 9/17/2019 7:16 AM, warthodson--- via Healeys wrote:
> Our local AH club will be checking a BJ8 for high oil consumption this 
> weekend. He says it is not leaking out. We will verify that when we 
> inspect it.
> He added 8 quarts of oil on the round trip to Conclave recently (2100 
> miles total). The engine was professionally rebuilt in 2011. The 
> engine builder has recently retired & moved to a Caribbean island so 
> we cannot contact him, true story.
> In 2012 he used 6 quarts of oil on a 5000 mile trip. About 2-3 years 
> ago I checked the compression, performed a leak down test & inspected 
> the spark plugs. Every thing was in the normal range.
> My question is: If the engine passes all the usual tests this weekend, 
> what are some of the unusual ways you have come across that could 
> cause high oil consumption & how would we test for them?
>
> Gary Hodson
>

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