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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
Clearly, you've ignored my signature, or you wouldn't be making such ridiculous statements.
My original question concerned the use of four quarts of oil within 800 miles. The oil light would have been illuminated at the point where the engine requires 1.5 quarts.
So, the question remains. If you've added four quarts of oil to the engine within 800 miles of driving, why has the light remained extinguished? Have you consistently added oil before the oil reached the lower mark? If so, this could be part of your problem. The 603 seems to consume oil based upon how full the crankcase is. My '86 had cut it's consumption dramatically if I leave the oil level right at the low mark.
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My car in this thread is not an 86 603. And, I don't buy that belief that "no oil consumption when the level on the dip stick is low, but if filled to the proper levels, then the car will consume oil". The engine is going to consume oil or it isn't, unless something is wrong with the dip stick itself, which causes you to overfill the crankcase if you go by "your" dipstick and once the excess of oil is burned off, indicating a FULL crankcase, but showing low on your dip stick"; is the only way I see the oil consumption stabilizing to zero: that is the only way I could buy that, using no oil once the level got low. It's not just a Mercedes Benz engine, any engine will do what it was designed to do, (not burn oil) IF the sources of the problem can correctly be diagnosed. I'm not an expert, but I do know what I know about my car and know what I want the end results to be, when I finish solving the problem (run good and burn moderate or burn no oil at all). And, I would never ask you a question if I already knew the answer to the question, just to be asking you a question; and then jump on you if I did't like your answer to the question that you already knew the answer to. But, for the benefit of no argument, I will explain again. I have put in four quarts TOTAL and have driven this car 850 miles. So that means that if the yellow light will come on when I'm two quarts low, then that would make me have added oil ONCE, right? What's important to me is to know how many miles I will get in these four quarts of oil. With the long run objective of determining when or IF the oil consumption will begin to stabilize. And then measure those figures against what I knew it was doing BEFORE I removed the head.
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