Pretty much the worst day ever...

[VX KAT]

This has me a little bit wigged as I'm about to set out on a 3700 mile solo trip next week! My experience has been it consumes about 1/4 qt when driving 8 hrs highway (it's happened to/from Moab a few times...but not always) and none in any other instance in my 22 months of ownership. I thought I'd carry 3-4 qts...now I'm thinking I should carry more.

Jack or Paul, were you able to tell if it left a trail of oil shortly before it seized?

I'll be in and out of the car frequently so I'll sure be looking.

Also, just curious..what mileage were yours' at? I know there's a poll on model yr, but I don't recall mileage. Paul I'm not trying to t/j, just wanted to know.

[nfpgasmask]

Yeah, this leaves me wondering to. Jack, if you lost that much oil in that short a period, there must have been a big puddle under your VX.

This makes me think that some of these VX motors that failed, failed because of frequent running of the motor with too low oil. Basically, the damage was done before you topped off your oil, know what I mean?

Bart

[phines]

Jack or Paul, were you able to tell if it left a trail of oil shortly before it seized?

I'll be in and out of the car frequently so I'll sure be looking.

Also, just curious..what mileage were yours' at? I know there's a poll on model yr, but I don't recall mileage. Paul I'm not trying to t/j, just wanted to know.

I didn't get a chance to look for an oil trail; it seized up in the middle of that hail storm. There was about 4 inches of hail and water on the road that I was plowing my way through (craziest thing I've ever seen). I don't think it dumped the oil all at once... it's more likely that it just started using/leaking oil faster than I was used to. Over the past six months, with all the repairs and replaced parts I had been doing, it started to use less and less oil. As a result, I got out of the habit of checking the oil level everytime I filled up the gas tank. It was kinda nice... almost like having a normal vehicle. Oh well.

As for the mileage, I had just hit 151k a few days before...