Engine Oil for Honda

[dinorider]

So by "burning up" your saying the poorer health engine used up the oil quickly and had to be changed more regularly.

Yes. The engine in my old DA1 Integra was not well cared for by the previous owners. I had two choices: rebuild the engine, or run thicker engine oil to limit the piston blow by (i.e. essentially means that the piston rings weren't sealing well in the cylinder anymore).

[aaronng]

Well now that I have changed the ATF, put new oil and sparkies etc things sound and feel smoother.

Currently I am using 20-50 is a compression test able to be done DIY or do you have to take it in to a mech? How much?

So by "burning up" your saying the poorer health engine used up the oil quickly and had to be changed more regularly.

Try 10w-40. If you find that you burn up oil quickly (check weekly), then go back to 20w-50.

[repeated_love]

Try 10w-40. If you find that you burn up oil quickly (check weekly), then go back to 20w-50.

That's the thing how will I determine engine oil is burning up quickly if I don't know what the normal rate is?

Being a noob I rarely check my engine oil but if I was to begin checking it weekly how would I know 10w-40 is burning up quickly as I don't know the usual rate that oil burns up.