Originally Posted by D1dad
What was saturns issue with consumption? My son in laws sister has one with almost 300k on it and uses a quart every 1k but the thing runs like a Swiss Watch. She just drove it from ohio to Miami and back and I didn't figure she'd make it but not so much as a hiccup. She was given the car and was told it's always used a qt per 1k and it's stayed true to the word.
Originally Posted by spasm3
Kreen works well for cleaning, but it can't fix worn rings or low tension rings. I tried it in saturns, they would be clean, but still used oil. Piston lands clean on tear down.
Low tension piston rings. Some years seem worse than others. Seems to me it was worse in the 1995 and up models( s-series). There were theories of coked piston rings from inadequate drain back holes on the Pistons. I've torn them down and found no coked rings even in an 01 that was using a quart in 400 miles.
I think Saturn pushed the low tension ring envelope in the search for mpg. I've gotten 40 on an sc1 manual with a glasspack, all while burning a quart of oil per fill-up.
What was saturns issue with consumption? My son in laws sister has one with almost 300k on it and uses a quart every 1k but the thing runs like a Swiss Watch. She just drove it from ohio to Miami and back and I didn't figure she'd make it but not so much as a hiccup. She was given the car and was told it's always used a qt per 1k and it's stayed true to the word.
Originally Posted by spasm3
Kreen works well for cleaning, but it can't fix worn rings or low tension rings. I tried it in saturns, they would be clean, but still used oil. Piston lands clean on tear down.
Low tension piston rings. Some years seem worse than others. Seems to me it was worse in the 1995 and up models( s-series). There were theories of coked piston rings from inadequate drain back holes on the Pistons. I've torn them down and found no coked rings even in an 01 that was using a quart in 400 miles.
I think Saturn pushed the low tension ring envelope in the search for mpg. I've gotten 40 on an sc1 manual with a glasspack, all while burning a quart of oil per fill-up.