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jay-eye-see

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My 06 F150 5.4 with 44k uses up to a quart of oil every 1500-2000 miles or so. I first noticed it last summer and it seemed to use less during cold weather but has picked up again lately. I use it for mainly driving to work and change it myself about every 4k with the recommended 5W-20. I add when it is a qt down and change it when it is a qt down a second time. These trucks are very common, anybody else heard of this? When I poked around online, I saw horror stories about these things not giving up their spark plugs but little about oil usage issues. Ive thought about dumping 10W-40 into it but will probably just keep doing what im doing. My dad used to always say "trade it for a yellow dog...then shoot the dog" Aside from adding oil, I love the truck.
 
My 06 F250 with the 5.4 gas does the same thing.

Least I think it's a 5.4.

Had a 86 Ford Areostar did the same thing.

It still lasted about 200,000 miles till the kid that bought it from me failed to check the oil for 5000 miles. It went kabang.

Gary
 
I have an 04 Ford F-150 with the 5.4 motor
It has 192000 miles on it and hardly uses any oil at all --- I keep checking because I think it might - but it doesn't
I have used synthetic since the 1st oil change - I became a believer in synthetic with my 95 ford P.U.
Is it the Synthetic oil --- I don't know - it just seems to have work for me -- I usually use Castrol but have used others occasionally

Ken 46
 
I would be very happy with that performance, and would keep checking the oil and adding when necessary. IMHO, not ANY reason to do anything else, especially rebuilding it. It is working great! Good luck.
 
The only time I've heard of the 5.4 burning oil is when they have blown head gasket and even that is pretty rare after they went to the 3V engine.
 
Every Ford I've ever had started using a little oil after they turned 100K miles or so. I call using oil a quart in 3k miles...anything less is NOT using oil. My '84 Crown Vicky got to using a quart every 2500-3000 miles after 200,000 miles, same with my '77 F-250 with it's 460. Now my '95 F-150 5.8 want a quart every 3000 miles and gets a change when it needs another quart.
Many years ago I had a '46 Pontiac 8 that used a quart every 1000 miles after it had 65,000 miles on it and I ground the valves...and at the time I was told not to worry about it. Our M Farmall uses a quart of oil every 8-10 hours of use, but I know the rings are getting bad, it still starts, runs, and pulls good so.....what the heck....
 

Had a 85 Ford station wagon with a v 6 engine used a quart of oil every 500 miles. Valve seal problem, did fine after motor was rebuilt many miles later.

Gary, that kid must have been trying to wean the car. Did he run it out of gas often too?

KEH
 
I think he knew to keep gas in it but not much more.

I told him when he bought it to put a quart of oil in every other tank of gas.

That's the way it was from 50,000 to 185,000 miles for me.

Can you imagine some of these kids today trying to keep the cars running we did back in the 50's, and 60's, even the 70's for that mather.

Gary
 
jay, maybe its the quality of the oil you are using. i use motor craft 5-20 synthetic blend from walmart in mine and it never uses any oil even when towing 12000 lbs. just my thoughts, chuck
 
my 98 dodge ram 1500 with 5.9 gasser uses -0- oil on a 3500mile change using walmart 10w30

my 04 f250 with 6.0 PSD uses -0- oil on a 5k change using motorcraft 15w40

my 99 f450 with 7.3 psd uses -0- oil on (variable, but over 5k ) change using 5w40 valvoline ultra blue ful synthetic.

heck.. virtually all 50-60 my old ford, allis and jd and IH gasser and diesel tractors using walmart oil use no oil per year.

my 2000 gmc yukon uses about a quart per 1500 miles :( dealer says it's normal. oil is 5w20, though I usually go to 5w30 and bump that usage to 1 quart per 2000m at the 3000 mark for chage it's usually down a quart more... :( won't ever own another gm if I can help it.

soundguy
 
that in itself is nothing to worry about, but try using motorcraft 5w20 in bottle next time just to see if it improves. I have seen some , especially bulk oil that lots of places buy, cheapest they can get, that burns off a lot faster. Used some in my moms Grand Marquis once, used 3 qt plus that time, motorcraft since and rarely add between changes.
 
I had a 99 Ford F150 with the 5.4 liter engine. It used a quart in 1500 miles out of the box. There was a batch of bad engines put out that I found on the internet. Ford had a hidden recall on those engines, and I ended up getting a new engine. The new engine ran great for 100K and used NO oil.

A modern engine should use no oil The manufacturers set the limit on consumption low so that they will not have to repair those engines under warranty.
 
I'd not add any when it gets a quart down. some engines like that first qt. watch it closely and see if oil consumption stops after the top qt is used. have seen this many times with tractors, semi's and personal trucks.
truck is made to run fine being 1qt down. tractors and semi's are made to run fine at 1 gallon down. if it gets to 2qts down then add.
 
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