your motor is not leaking? if not then u could have a bad piston rings or bearings could be a few things its looking for a rebuild but it would be cheaper to find a used motor with lower miles and put it in it and keep going a rebuild would cost ya a good 800 bucks or more and usually you can get a used motor for that or way less all depends on where you look try ebay or a junkyard near you
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2004 Ford Freestar burning a quart of oil every 2-3 weeks, whats going on?
- Thread starter Chad
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my aunt has a 2004 Ford Freestar 135000 miles.
She says that every other fill-up she needs to add a quart of oil. No puddles pool up over night, no leaks as far as i can tell, exhaust looks fine ( little white on cold start-up). no check engine light doesnt knock or anything. the only odd thing i noticed is that very rarely but occasionally when in gear at idle with the a/c on the car will shudder for maybe a second and than is fine, RPM dosent seem to change i think that might have something to do with the a/c but i dont know.
Thank you for any answers best answer will be chosen.
She says that every other fill-up she needs to add a quart of oil. No puddles pool up over night, no leaks as far as i can tell, exhaust looks fine ( little white on cold start-up). no check engine light doesnt knock or anything. the only odd thing i noticed is that very rarely but occasionally when in gear at idle with the a/c on the car will shudder for maybe a second and than is fine, RPM dosent seem to change i think that might have something to do with the a/c but i dont know.
Thank you for any answers best answer will be chosen.
Couple of questions... ? Has she changed the oil regularly? Any chance she may be adding too much oil, as in over the full mark?
In the absence of visible evidence of leakage or burning of the oil, an easy answer to your question would be to have a shop run a compression check on the engine, if the rings or valve guides are bad it'll show in the results. I would think that if this were the case that the evidence would be visible out the exhaust.
My guess is that its something other than oil burning since to use that much oil would likely foul the plugs and that she would surely notice.
In the absence of visible evidence of leakage or burning of the oil, an easy answer to your question would be to have a shop run a compression check on the engine, if the rings or valve guides are bad it'll show in the results. I would think that if this were the case that the evidence would be visible out the exhaust.
My guess is that its something other than oil burning since to use that much oil would likely foul the plugs and that she would surely notice.
I had a car do the same thing. It turned out the piston rings were shot, which is several hundred dollars to repair. The only way to really be certain is to follow her and watch the exhaust while she's driving. If it is smoky during acceleration or high speed - its the rings. If smoky during deceleration, its the valves.
I had a car do the same thing. It turned out the piston rings were shot, which is several hundred dollars to repair. The only way to really be certain is to follow her and watch the exhaust while she's driving. If it is smoky during acceleration or high speed - its the rings. If smoky during deceleration, its the valves.
I had a car do the same thing. It turned out the piston rings were shot, which is several hundred dollars to repair. The only way to really be certain is to follow her and watch the exhaust while she's driving. If it is smoky during acceleration or high speed - its the rings. If smoky during deceleration, its the valves.
I had a car do the same thing. It turned out the piston rings were shot, which is several hundred dollars to repair. The only way to really be certain is to follow her and watch the exhaust while she's driving. If it is smoky during acceleration or high speed - its the rings. If smoky during deceleration, its the valves.
I had a car do the same thing. It turned out the piston rings were shot, which is several hundred dollars to repair. The only way to really be certain is to follow her and watch the exhaust while she's driving. If it is smoky during acceleration or high speed - its the rings. If smoky during deceleration, its the valves.