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Old 01-02-2011, 03:18 PM
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Re: Excessive Oil Consumption '00 Windstar

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Originally Posted by danielsatur View Post
Are you using a premium PCV filter?
If compression is bad, the exhaust smoke is blue.

If the valve stem seals are bad consider going with an external PCV valve + filter, so there's a little less oil being burned.
Just curious, but why not just replace the valve stem seals? I've seen the external PCV valve setups, but how would that prevent oil from going past the valve stem seals?

Mark

P.S. The PCV valve is only about 3 months old. I can grab another one and see what happens, I guess.
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