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| RE: Oil consuming 428 ?'s |
| By James - 06/16/2003 1:16:23 AM; IP 67.66.244.173 |
My 428 is thirsty too. The valve guide clearence is one place to start looking. Which heads and which valves did you use? Some valves right out of the box are clearenced wrong especially the cheap ones even if they are stainless. A shop will lead you to believe that they check everything but they do not always do it. Out of the box and on the engine! Then you get a phone call telling you to come pick it up. Out goes their hand for the money and they will tell you anything to get rid of you. That is why picking the right machine shop is so critical. I have caught machine shops lying so many times it isn't funny. One time a machinist broke down and told me that he just didn't know much about the Ford product after tracing a problem back to his work. I thought...does that excuse you from doing your darn homework? Anyway....If you have new valves and new valve guides that are correctly clearenced then you may have a broken oil ring. A leak down test is a good start but might not tell you if you have a broken oil ring. It will only tell you that the compression rings are good but still...its a good start.
Four quarts of oil in 200 miles is a sign of trouble. Pull the plugs and keep them in order to see which cylinder is doing what. One good way to do this is to take something like a shoe box and poke holes in the top just big enough to firmly hold a spark plug turned upside down for inspection purposes. Number the holes and mark an "F" for front at one end as another visual que meaning the front of engine.
Just because the car is not smoking doesn't mean that it is not burning the oil. Four quarts in 200 miles will show up on the plugs.
Which oil pump did you use and did you restrict the oil feed holes in the heads like us FE fans have been taught to do all our lives? |
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