What eats oil more

[Richieboy]

Bad valves seals or bad rings?

 

[Jester32]

Rings lol by ten fold unless your valve seals are missing entirly. Valve seals usually give a small puff of blue on startup from it seeping down to the valves. Rings the harder it works the more it will burn.

 

[Allen's Offroad]

Given that if you had really bad rings, as to not scrape sufficient oil from the cylinder walls during the stroke, I would say your rig would run like hell and have really low compression. Given you were still running well and the rings were just getting a little worn, I would say the worn/cracked/missing valve seals would burn more. They are constantly bathed in oil, therefore much more oil would have the chance to make it in the cylinder to burn. with the only thing to hold back said oil is the heat in the head and the stem itself drying it as it runs in (minimal at best).

You got a lot of blue smoke? Or just missing some between changes? You can check which one it is with a small squirt type oil can and a compression gauge. Run a compression check with all the plugs out and coil wire disconnected. Then run one again in each cylinder with a couple light squirts of oil. If the compression goes up significantly, the rings are the problem.

Allen

 

[Allen's Offroad]

Rings lol by ten fold unless your valve seals are missing entirly. Valve seals usually give a small puff of blue on startup from it seeping down to the valves. Rings the harder it works the more it will burn.

OOOPS! Rethinking my answer now! :roll: Maybe your right. Try the compression test anyway to see where the problem is.

 

[Richieboy]

Given that if you had really bad rings, as to not scrape sufficient oil from the cylinder walls during the stroke, I would say your rig would run like hell and have really low compression. Given you were still running well and the rings were just getting a little worn, I would say the worn/cracked/missing valve seals would burn more. They are constantly bathed in oil, therefore much more oil would have the chance to make it in the cylinder to burn. with the only thing to hold back said oil is the heat in the head and the stem itself drying it as it runs in (minimal at best).

You got a lot of blue smoke? Or just missing some between changes? You can check which one it is with a small squirt type oil can and a compression gauge. Run a compression check with all the plugs out and coil wire disconnected. Then run one again in each cylinder with a couple light squirts of oil. If the compression goes up significantly, the rings are the problem.

Allen

Ok thanks you she drives good lot of power just when rev it she smells not alot I do hear a little miss like pop pop pop but not loud no back fire she goes good could that be the valves
Pooling oil. Will do what you said com- check.

 

[Richieboy]

Bad valves seals or bad rings?

Given that if you had really bad rings, as to not scrape sufficient oil from the cylinder walls during the stroke, I would say your rig would run like hell and have really low compression. Given you were still running well and the rings were just getting a little worn, I would say the worn/cracked/missing valve seals would burn more. They are constantly bathed in oil, therefore much more oil would have the chance to make it in the cylinder to burn. with the only thing to hold back said oil is the heat in the head and the stem itself drying it as it runs in (minimal at best).

You got a lot of blue smoke? Or just missing some between changes? You can check which one it is with a small squirt type oil can and a compression gauge. Run a compression check with all the plugs out and coil wire disconnected. Then run one again in each cylinder with a couple light squirts of oil. If the compression goes up significantly, the rings are the problem.

Allen

Ok thanks you she drives good lot of power just when rev it she smells not alot I do hear a little miss like pop pop pop but not loud no back fire she goes good could that be the valves
Pooling oil. Will do what you said com- check.

 

[Allen's Offroad]

Yes I would start with the basics. Compression check, new valve cover gasket and inspection of the seals, etc, etc. the rest of it sounds like it is time for some investigatory tune up work; i.e. plugs, wires, timing, sufficient fuel delivery, etc, etc.

When you rev her up and are smelling something, where is the smell coming from? That will help lead you to the issue as well.

Allen

 

[Richieboy]

Yes I would start with the basics. Compression check, new valve cover gasket and inspection of the seals, etc, etc. the rest of it sounds like it is time for some investigatory tune up work; i.e. plugs, wires, timing, sufficient fuel delivery, etc, etc.

When you rev her up and are smelling something, where is the smell coming from? That will help lead you to the issue as well.

Allen

Tail pipe my friend will drive behind me later but he said he didn't see anything last week but try again today thanks for the help sorry just ****ed

 

[Turbogus]

lol years ago I traded my first Jeep for a '66 Malibu. I was a Muncie four speed car and lightning scary quick. The cam they had in this 350 was a 30-30 Chevy service solid lifter cam. (30-30 related to the valve settings .030) It had oil eating issues.............hole in a piston and oooh oooh that smell. Wasn't too long and I wound up getting another 350, but, and I've always regretted this, I didn't keep that cam.

 

[jps4jeep]

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