every two weeks it needs oil. when i parke it and later move it, it does drip no oil. i heard its burning it from the inside. what can i do?|||Ignore the morons above!
Honda's are great cars and with a little care and occasional maintenance, they will give years of inexpensive, trouble free motoring and you can save you money that the morons above are blowing on new car payments while the car drops in value faster than they can pay for it.
Anyway, the non-leaking but still using oil can come from two places and a possible third.
1) valve stem seals: this keep the oil around the cams from leaking down into the cylinder. they tend to harden up over 10-15 years and 150-250 k miles. If you get a puff of smoke out of the tailpipe when you let off of the throttle while in gear, it is a good chance the seals are dried out. It IS possible to repair them without taking down the engine but you may want to wait until you need to do the timing belt too since much of the same stuff comes off.
2) piston rings. These are internal and not much can be done except add a heavier weight oil. Try 10W-40 if you location allows (don't use below about 0 deg f.) and even 20W-50 but don't if it gets below about 25 deg F. If it gets too bad, get a low mileage JDM import motor (about $500 for you car) and have it installed - tada, less than $1k and you have a new car just about.
3) Cam seal. This leaks behind the timing belt and Honda put in a little deflector to force the oil outside of the timing belt covers. It will usually run down the back of the engine and occasionally burn on the exhaust. This seal should be replaced with every timing belt change. It is only an extra $30 or so.|||This is an old car. Time to scrap the car and get a new one. Most likely you wont even get $1,000 for this car. You should just sell it for $300 or $400 for parts. Get a new car. Its about time.|||get a new ride dude!
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