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Rev up your engines!
It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
if you're always having to add engine
oil to your engine, then stay tuned,
because today I'm going to help you answer
the age-old question, why does my engine
use oil, and what can I do about it,
now generally engines either leak oil or
they burn the oil, so first check for
engine oil leaks, now if you're having to
add a quart of oil quite often, the leak
would be quite big if it was leaking, so
you'll be able to see it dripping under
the vehicle, look under the vehicle
for wet spots around the engine, where
it'd be dripping, and of course look on
the ground to see if there's big puddle
of oil, because if you're leaking that
much oil that you have to add a quart
every once in a while, oil makes giant
blobs, a quart of oil would leave a
football sized field blob underneath, and
you'll be able to see that it's leaking,
so if you don't see large amounts of oil
either on the engine or dripping on the
ground, a leak isn't your problem, if
you're going through a lot of oil, it
would be burning in that case, but if it
is leaking oil, here's the trick I've
used for years, you get some of this UV
leak dye, and your poor little in the
engine oil, then you get one of these UV
leak light detectors, and yellow
sunglasses, and look for where the green
dye is coming out, and you can find the
leak, as you can see, when I put the
yellow sunglasses over the camera, and
shine the light, you can easily see where
the dyes come out where there's a leak,
these UV systems are great for finding
leaks, you don't have to clean everything
off and get it whistle clean, and they
pinpoint exactly where the dye is coming
from, well let's say you don't have any
leaks, and you lose an oil, well that
means it's burning it, and in that case,
you want to hope that it's just a clogged up PCV valve, that sucking oil into the
engine and burning it, because otherwise
it's serious internal engine damage,
now in this Toyota, it's kind of hard to
find a PCV valve, you don't take a stupid
cover off, and here's the PCV hose, we'll
follow the line down, and it goes to the
valve, right down here, once you pull the
hose off, you can see the PCV valve right
here, but sometimes they get old, and it
gets stuck open, then
instead of suck in vapor in, they'll suck
oil and burn it in the engine,
now these PCV valves don't cost much,
only a few dollars, so you might just
take it out and change them every once
awhile to make sure they don't get
clogged up and suck oil in the engine,
now if you tried all this and you still
find the engine's burning oil, then take
out a spark plug, and if you find that
the spark plug is full of all kinds of
burnt things, like this one is, then that
means that your engine has a serious
internal problem, like bad valve seals,
worn piston rings, it's going to cost a
lot of money to rebuild the engine to
stop that, but as you can see by the
gallon I have here, you can put a quart
of this lucas oil stabilizer in, it can
often help slow down the oil burning and
let cars run a few more years before the
engine finally goes out, and of course
realized, you can prevent that from
happening in the first place by doing
regular oil and filter changes in the
engine, then you won't have to deal with
this problem to begin with, so now you
know what to do if your engine starts
using a bunch of oil, and just pray that
it's a bad PCV valve or an oil leak, and
not a worn out engine, and remember if you've
got any questions just visit the Scotty
Kilmer channel.
