# Oil consumption problem

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-consumption-problem/57993>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** pilot, oil, honda\
**Created:** [November 26, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-consumption-problem/57993 "2010-11-26T22:06:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-consumption-problem/57993/21 "2019-07-25T03:59:52Z")

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> [@mperry\_153483](#):
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> Our Caravan started using that much, almost overnight, and it turned out to be the valve guide seals had popped off.

That was years ago when Chrysler didn’t have the manufacturing capacity to build enough V6 engines and relied on Mitsubishi for engines. The 3.0 L engine had a problem with dropping valve guides, when this happens the valve seal pops off.

The field fix was to move the valve guild back into position, cut a grove on the outside of the guide and install a snap ring to prevent it from dropping again. The problem was supposed to have been corrected for the 1992 production vehicles.

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