Tim,

What grade of oil are you using?  I use 20W-50 and my
van has never consumed nearly that much oil.  I have
122k miles on the original case.

Greg Stelz,
86 "westfakia"
Columbus, Ohio
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Date:    Tue, 28 May 2002 23:49:20 -0700
From:    Tim Hurlbut <timothy@VERIO.NET>
Subject: Oil Consumption

Greetings listmembers,

I purchased my 1987 new in Germany at one of the
"drive around europe
and ship it home" purchase plans.  While driving in
Europe, I found
the van to use 1 quart of oil every 1000 miles.  I
asked a mechanic at
a
VW
dealer in germany what was the problem and he told me
that it is
acceptable for Vanagons to use as much as one liter
every 1000 KM's.
I accepted his answer and the van ran fine, using a
quart every 1000
miles for 193,000 miles.

I recently had a rebuilt engine installed and now the
van uses a quart
of oil every 900 miles.

Thoughts?  Anyone else use a lot of oil in their
wasserboxen.

By the way, the oil seems to be blow-by ... the air
intake near the
AFM is very oily.  Blow-by could be rings that didn't
seat properly.

Tim Hurlbut
87 Vanagon
90 Vanagon GL

PS.  The 90 uses about 1 quart every 2 thousand miles.
 145,000 miles

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