blue1985yota

My truck burns oil fast, fast enough that i need to bring 4 quarts extra on a wheeling trip. blue smoke burns. new piston rings correct? what size do i buy? Im looking on LCE website and they have different sizes. How do i know what size is for me...I have a 1985 22r carb.

The oyther problem is my carburator...i put it on my self and it ran fine for a couple of weeks then i started getting reall bad gas milage...after i got tired of that for about a month i took my truck to a carb place and they adjusted it and it was great and my truck had more horsepower then ever and was all around more zippy. but again after a couple of weeks it went to crap again. What can be happing? I dont know much about carbs and i espcailly dont no what ever tube is so ill ahve to be walked through it.

Thank you.

kyle_22r

correct, blue smoke is oil. usually either the valve seals or rings, but excessive smoke is almost definitely the rings.

if you're a little mechanically inclined, you could rebuild the engine for not much more effort than putting in piston rings. for an '85 a complete rebuild kit runs around $220 from engnbldr. just get a good book(factory service manual is the best but a chiltons is OK) and take it slow, it'll give you a lot of intimate knowledge of your engine.