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Originally posted by TimFreeh
I love the 616/617 engines but it seems like quite a few seem to start to drink oil at the 200-300K mark. They still seem to run fine but the cylinders start to taper and the don't start very well when cold. On the other hand I've seen engines with 300K that don't use any oil at all.
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These engines certainly have minds of their own.
My 617 runs and starts beautifully, uses very little oil (I think I've put one quart's worth in over the almost 5K miles I have put on the car; granted I need to change the oil; will do that as soon as I get access to my driveway again), and has good compression (400 psi on #'s 1 through 4 and 375 psi on #5). In spite of this, I've got enough blow-by smoke that I almost didn't buy the car.
She gets the job done and I'm not expecting a catastrophic failure, but there's always that nagging doubt (I'll openly admit to being paranoid)...