are there common contributors to oil leaking while the car is off or has been sitting? doesn't smoke while driving of under load at all, just for the first three eseconds of start up. it has a 3.5l v6 i believe.
2007-07-13 14:55:52 · 8 answers · asked by jkruze8806 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Chrysler
I know very little about cars but if you have blue smoke and oil leaking could be the rings or the engine is ready to go..
2007-07-13 15:03:58 · answer #1 · answered by commonsense2265 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the car is not using oil and you are only burning oil at start up after a cooling down period, you probably have bad valve stem seals.
What occurs here is that those little seals are meant to keep the oil which circulates in the valve train for lubrication out of the combustion chamber.
After you drive the car and the oil heats up, getting thinner, there is residual oil sitting under your valve covers. It leaks past the valve stems and into the cylinders and burns at start up, giving you the cloud of blue smoke.
2007-07-13 22:04:51 · answer #2 · answered by acermill 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Caution on this one. '92 Le Baron, there were 2 different body styles. Neither had a3.5 engine. They had, most commonly 2.5 or 3.0. IF is it is 3.0 there was a problem on that Mitsubishi end. The valve guiles would actually sink lower in the cylinder. This would cause oil to get by, with result being blue smoke at start up, or pulling away from stop. Chrysler had a TSB(tech bulletin) that involve cutting a ring in the valve guide and placing a ring on it so the ring would bottom out on head, causing the guide to stop sinking. After a certain production date, they had the rings on them when they left plant.
2007-07-14 02:04:06 · answer #3 · answered by justme601000 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it's a 15 year old car so you should expect a little oil burning. Probably the seals are just getting worn out. These days whenever I see the old Chrysler lebaron/Dodge spirit/Plymouth Acclaims they always are smoking and burning oil it is a common issue with that V6. Just make sure it always has enough oil and drive it till it dies.
2007-07-13 22:06:25 · answer #4 · answered by cc123 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's the valve stem seals causing it to smoke that much when you start it ,then it clears up,all its doing is burning off the oil that runs down the stems ,the seals are probably gone off of it,its not too bad of a job for a shop to replace these though,it usually cost around 100 bucks to get it done,and that should put an end to it smoking like that,good luck with it,hope this helps.
2007-07-13 22:05:53 · answer #5 · answered by dodge man 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
valve seats are leaking
2007-07-16 11:16:20 · answer #6 · answered by what a way to start a day 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time for a valve job buddy.
2007-07-16 17:38:19 · answer #7 · answered by twisten 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like bad valve seals to me....
2007-07-14 03:22:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋