Oil usage

[Drifter995]

I know my car uses about half a litre of oil over a few months of usage... and it's very old... Mine mostly smokes on startup, so I'm fairly sure it's valve guide seals... I got quoted $320~ for it or $600~ for it and sump gasket.. but that is tasmania prices, and awesome mechanic.. so yeah... (by awesome I mean one who isn't honda dealer.. and only charges like $77 an hour)

I'd be doing the valve guide seals anyway... car is old, probably worth doing...

[migoreng]

Mine never smokes on startup, so does that mean the stem seals are good?...

It still burns half a litre every 1000km but I guess that's what a h22a does.. some like to drink lots of oil.
....and I'm using Honda oil with 270,000 on the odometer.

Any suggestions on what else to do at 300,000km timing belt change?

Engine still pulls strong and fuel consumption is good...it has been pretty much the same for the last 100,000km

[caljones]

Dry compression would not tell if oil rings are bad. what you should do is to pour a lil bit of oil in each cylinder. if the compression goes up. that's mean oil ring are bad if they stay the same than the seals are bad.
Honda from what i know they use 1 oil ring and 2 compression ring, so possibly oil rings are cracked, broken... Just do wet compression again.
Note: after you finish the wet compression it's gonna smoke hell a lot for 10-15min

Do this even if all cylinders read 180 psi?
(this is the correct pressure ive read.)

[curtis265]

Mine never smokes on startup, so does that mean the stem seals are good?...

It still burns half a litre every 1000km but I guess that's what a h22a does.. some like to drink lots of oil.
....and I'm using Honda oil with 270,000 on the odometer.

Any suggestions on what else to do at 300,000km timing belt change?

Engine still pulls strong and fuel consumption is good...it has been pretty much the same for the last 100,000km

that's prettyfkingood

[hmetro24]

Do this even if all cylinders read 180 psi?
(this is the correct pressure ive read.)

yes even if all cylinders read 180psi \Dry compression
if it read higher than 180psi with wet compression than its oil ring

[Lukey]

Note: after you finish the wet compression it's gonna smoke hell a lot for 10-15min

or you can crank the engine over and spit the oil back out the spark plug holes.