Engine smoking

[schwinger]

New to the forum so here we go

i have a 72 dodge dart swinger that has a 1988 318 in it, my problem is that the # 5 cylinder is sucking up oil alot, changed the valve stem seals which i thought were the problem but it wasn't, checked compression on it and it was close to the same as the others and i even switched spark plugs with another cylinder and ran it for a little bit and it was oily big time, i suspect the oil ring but i was wondering what would be best. to rebuild the whole engine or just take the head off and take out #5 piston to change the piston rings?

 

[camd64]

check the intake gasket too. a friends charger kept fouling only one plug and it ended up being a crack in the gasket right above the lifter valley. it would suck the oil right through the port and right to the plug.

 

[MopaR&D]

I replaced the intake gasket on my '70 318 and it stopped burning oil. That should be it, everything else oil-leak related has checked out okay.

 

[schwinger]

changed the intake gasket too, i forgot to mention that, i thought that was the problem too, but i was wrong.

 

[C130 Chief]

If youre moving that much oil through a single cylinder you may have broken rings. The bore is probably scored pretty bad.

Rebuild time.

 

[rsherw3]

what type of intake are you using if its the factory intake does it have a plate bolted to the bottom if so, that gasket could be leaking also. just my .02

 

[schwinger]

using the old style edelbrock intake manifold on it, its probably the rings then so i went ahead and took it to the engine shop, still under warrenty so they would tell me more about it on saturday but thanks on the info

 

[Longgone]

You may have a bad ring, but is the engine running well? Any missing? Is that particular cylinder getting a good hot spark? Could it be a bad distributor cap or wire?