Maintaining oil level on your car's engine has one important purpose; that is whether your engine uses a lot of it or none at all. If the level stays constant all the time, its oil consumption is negligible. Yet if you need to add up oil at alarming rate it should trigger the alarm off.
High oil consumption prevails with power loss and lots of smoke emission coming out from your exhaust muffler. A serious problem has occurred if your car suffers the former, whilst latter indication might tell you a minor engine problem. You're likely having oil leak if there is no power losses, the oil is simply burnt into the combustion chamber. Expect to replace sets of oil seal along cylinder head or spark plug housing.
But if there is power loss, then your engine needs for an overhaul. By measuring each cylinder's compression, your mechanic could tell whether it would be a minor overhaul or major overhaul. Minor overhaul requires piston ring replacement, whilst a major one needs replacement of set of piston, piston rings and cylinder lining reworks. While your mechanic are doing the job on major overhauling work, she should also check the bottom half of the engine. Most probably that the damage has already expanded into its crankshaft assembly and other ancillaries there.
High oil consumption prevails with power loss and lots of smoke emission coming out from your exhaust muffler. A serious problem has occurred if your car suffers the former, whilst latter indication might tell you a minor engine problem. You're likely having oil leak if there is no power losses, the oil is simply burnt into the combustion chamber. Expect to replace sets of oil seal along cylinder head or spark plug housing.
But if there is power loss, then your engine needs for an overhaul. By measuring each cylinder's compression, your mechanic could tell whether it would be a minor overhaul or major overhaul. Minor overhaul requires piston ring replacement, whilst a major one needs replacement of set of piston, piston rings and cylinder lining reworks. While your mechanic are doing the job on major overhauling work, she should also check the bottom half of the engine. Most probably that the damage has already expanded into its crankshaft assembly and other ancillaries there.
