I know this has been talk about....but (oil drinker) - Honda Prelude Forum

Vtec00Lude · 02-25-2005, 12:26 PM

Alright fellas I asked this before about a year ago once i got familiar with the car, but now it IS getting worse! The oil where is it going? I kept track of it this time and according to.. I has to ADD 4 quarts of oil (Castrol 10W 30 Synthetic) on Feb. 8 about a month or so after i had an oil change! I checked it today Feb. 25 and IT IS BELOW MINIMUM!!
Is my choice in oil wrong? Should I not be using synthetic? Is this normal? What can I do to find out is wrong if its not normal? I know many questions but this is really getting old

Please help, any advice on anything I can check or try different will be a great help!

LUDExCONDUCT · 02-25-2005, 12:46 PM

Loosing 4 qts. of oil in a month is crazy. Have you checked for leaks? Check your oil pan, drain bolt, cam seal. How many miles are on the car? Also, if you don't do your own oil change, check the oil level after the shop does the change to make sure they topped it off.

crashandburn · 02-25-2005, 12:54 PM

This doesn't help solve your problem, but I would recommend you start checking your oil almost every day. Whatever is wrong with your engine, you can make it MUCH worse by driving when you're low on oil.

achemze · 02-25-2005, 01:08 PM

I treat this bad bay (my prelude) like a FC (rx-7), check oil every gas stop & Add oil at every other gas stop. I've documented that i consume about 1-1.5 qts every 500 miles. The saying i once heard was "You gotta pay to play"

It happens over time. How many miles/years old is your car?

Everyone seems to forget this, but lets not forget about the 8KRPM shifts that we were doing off of stop lights for years on end :P It takes its toll somewhere.

crashandburn · 02-25-2005, 01:22 PM

My Prelude has almost 80K miles on it and I add less than 1/2 quart between oil changes (~3.5-4K miles), even when I autocross it. They don't HAVE to use that much oil.

Vtec00Lude · 02-25-2005, 01:38 PM

The car is a 2000 and it has around 82000 miles on it.....

Gerhard · 02-25-2005, 01:57 PM

Does the car smoke when you VTEC at high RPMs?

Does it puff when it's cold and you start it, or does it burn oil alot when you start it and it gradually get's a little better?

If you'v never noticed either of these, you probably have a leak somewhere...

marcucci · 02-25-2005, 08:26 PM

If you had to add 4 quarts, that's your problem. You aren't checking oil regularly enough and have done damage. The engine simply cannot run on 1 quart of oil, there is more than that circulating when the engine is running.

Buy another motor. That's your solution.

Gerhard · 02-25-2005, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marcucci

If you had to add 4 quarts, that's your problem. You aren't checking oil regularly enough and have done damage. The engine simply cannot run on 1 quart of oil, there is more than that circulating when the engine is running.

Buy another motor. That's your solution.

I was trying to be nice... -grin-

SunShine287 · 02-26-2005, 01:10 AM

I don't know why so many people have issues with oil... I've used 15-50 synthetic mobile one before and of course that didn't burn at all, but since i switched to 10-30 synthetic mobile one, i still don't burn any oil. I seriously don't burn oil even if i try, dunno what's up with that...

Anyways, if you're really burning as much oil as you say, you're engine is funked.

Gerhard · 02-26-2005, 06:59 AM

To be honest... I really think it's a matter of something with how Honda manufactured the H22A4 series of motor.

SO many people burn a few quarts of oil between changes, myself included with my old H22A4.

I have yet to disassemble #4... but I can't find much wrong with the pistons or block from a simple visual inspection.

I really think that Honda has a manufacturing defect with many of the H22A4's. (I was the original owner of the car, took car of it beyond belief, and the only possibility is that's been mentioned so far is that I used number super fuel in the car enough to damage the rings.)

Vtec00Lude · 02-26-2005, 11:43 PM

I check the oil every week, every friday to be exact....
I get my oil changed by a buddy that works at a texico lube place so I know he's not bs'n me...
I'm plan to just get one of my friends dad to look at it at his shop!

fastfu · 02-27-2005, 03:33 AM

i had the same problem but i had heard that ludes use oil so i just kept topping it up, then i did an oil change and while i was under the car i noticed the back of the engine was covered in oil and it turned out to be the cam seal.

now with the seal replaced my car doesn't use a drop