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blowby 900 1996

i have a lot of blowby smoke coming out of my oil dipstick ans every 500 to 600 miles it uses a qaurt of oil. what can be causing this. 1996 with 144263 miles. 960 volvo








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    blowby 900 1996

    had similar on a turbo - only worse..cehck the usual suspects as mentioned here (flame trap etc) - if that dont work sell it and buy a better one...wish i had in the first place...








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    blowby 900 1996

    Your oil control rings are more than likely stuck. Synthetic may clean it out but I doubt it. You need to change the oil more often. Auto RX won't get on to the stuck part of the rings so that won't help either. You might try the Berkable engine and fuel cleaner and remove the plugs and pour about a 3 OZ in each hole. Make sure none of the pistons are at top dead center. It would also help if you jacked the right side of the car up so that an equal amout gets all around the pistons. It will take time for the cleaner to work itself in and loosen the sludge and shelac, rock the crank shaft just a little bit in each direction about once an hour to work the rings loose. After about 8 hours crank it up and watch the smoke fly, change the oil when it is warm and renew filter. Add seven quarts of fresh oil and add a pint of the berkable engine and fuel treatment DO NOT REV MOTOR WHILE THIS STUFF IS IN THE OIL, NO JACK RABBIT STARTS AND FLOORBOARDING TO PASS ANYONE. Leave in the crankcase for 150 miles and change oil and filter again. Drive for another 500 hundred miles and change the oil again. After that interval then check your oil consumption. Switching to synthetic will help more now that you have wrinced out the engine with clean oil. I have had this work on some pretty rough and abused engines with good success, I also blew one up! Less is better than more, follow the cans recomendations. Good luck. The aluminum engines seem to respond better to this than the b230, I would never try this on a turbo engine for fear of damage to the turbo.








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    blowby 900 1996

    Our 95 w/154K gets about 2,500 miles/qt. When we first got it at 109K it got about 1k miles/1qt. oil. The previous owner changed the dino oil about every 5-6K miles and lived in a hot climate. All I did was clean the flame trap and switch to synthetic oil.

    How often do you change your oil? Are you using synthetic? Besides the flame trap as others have mentioned, the rings could be gummed up. Synthetic oil or a cleaner like Auto-Rx could help if that were the case.

    DEWFPO
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    1998 S90 077,400 and 1995 964 154,100








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    blowby 900 1996

    If after checking the flame trap and that proves sound. The next step is a compression and leakdown test.

    DanR 94 964 303,000 miles (69,000 on the new engine)
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    DanR








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    blowby 900 1996

    Clogged flame trap or oil separator is the first suspect.







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