donbrew

If you can't find the "one rubber hose attached to both the cam cover and the throttle body", you have no business under the hood. Hire someone to do it.

If you can't do a YouTube search for yourself, you have no business having internet service. You are wasting your money.

Blunt, but true. I got nothing else.

LawDog88

When I was on the work computer and unable to view Youtube anything.

And okay, since you put it THAT way..

843de

To be honest Kev, that oil more than likely went out the tailpipe a little at a time. GM's "Acceptable" rate of oil consumption for the 2.2/2.4 Ecotec engines is a maximum of 1 quart per 1,000 miles depending on the oil change interval. The longer you go between changes, the more oil they'll burn.

Stiggz is over 100,000 miles now, so you need to make checks on your oil level at least once a week at the very minimum. And do it on a cold engine, if you get in the habit of say checking the oil every Monday morning, then you won't get this kind of surprise.

Now, being that you have old and overworked oil in the engine, get your oil changed A.S.A.P. Even with topping it up, you still have a lot of carboned up and crapped out oil still flowing around eating into bearings, not doing its job, and shortening the life of an engine you really don't want to replace.

Remember Buddy, even for those of us here who use Mobil 1, changing the oil and checking it frequently are a dang site cheaper than plonking in a crate motor or reman engine.

firemangeorge

Hey Mike, your post got me thinking.

Maximum 1 qt. per 1000 miles(GM acceptable)
Around 10,000 miles per oil change if you go down to 0% on the OLM.

Well, in theory, you could add 10 qts. between oil changes to keep it topped off! And this is acceptable by GM?

LawDog88

Apparently... And my EOLI told me 18%. So if 1qt = 10%... HOW?

FWIW, I got a Full Synthetic and new filter lined up for Stiggz tomorrow morning, and a fuel system cleaner that got tossed in.

My cousin who is an SM for Autozone said that now that my vehicle is over 100k, let alone 60k, Full Synthetic is more desirable, and preferred really. Said it will gum up less at the Oil Control Ring.

843de

That 1 quart per 1,000 miles is considered acceptable by GM for warranty purposes. So in theory, you could have an engine that's snarfing a quart of oil every thousand miles, and be told "they all do that". And as far as The General goes, they would be off the hook on the powertrain warranty.

Oil consumption is a hotbutton issue with the Equinox 2.4 owners who have had well documented problems.

LawDog88

Mike,

Well, now with Mobil 1 Full Synthetic 5W-20 and a new oil filter, and a bottle of Gumout Fuel System Cleaner I feel it running okay, but it's eating gas a bit fast this tank of fuel.. I am thinking it's probably the Fuel System Cleaner though...

db/sb

The EOLI indicates oil life as in remaining usefulness of lubricity not remaining volume......

firemangeorge

db/sb. Thanks for answering that for LawDog88.

I missed the fact that Kev's question was directed at me.