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Re: What is considered acceptable oil consumption?
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 4/3/1999 1 Reply

Brad,

From a ford training tape.

There are 36,000 drops of oil in a quart ( sae drops are sized etc), if a gas engine uses 1/1100 of a drop on every power stroke the the engine will consume 1 qt every 1000 miles. ( considered normal). The other side of the... Login to read more.

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