Most 2.1L water boxers use oil FUN BUS used a quart each 1,000 to 2,000
miles since new and I have supported that habit for 254K miles. I think it
is due to that 23 piece oil control ring or some loss down the intake
valve guides.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Allan Streib
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:22 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: oil usage

I posted earlier that on a recent 2000+ mile trip, my engine used
roughly 2 quarts of oil.  I checked it every fuel stop, and added
maybe half a quart every other stop to keep it between the add and the
full marks.

Most of this trip was interstate driving running at or near 4000 RPM.
I can see that running at that RPM might cause a bit of extra oil
usage but this seems pretty excessive based on other engines I'm used
to.

I never noticed any smoke in the exhaust.

Comments?  I'm going pull the plugs to see how they look, and check
compression as soon as I get a chance.  Probably this weekend.

Allan
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1991 Vanagon GL