Originally Posted by
nick bartle
Thanks for your reply, I wasn't trying to give bad advice, I was pointing in another direction.
You say it measures unburnt fuel and I agree, however engine oil is just a few stages away from petrol in the fractional distillation column, all it takes is a lot of heat to turn engine oil into petrol in laymans terms.
Because Engine oil has 3 times the ammount of Hydrocarbons than petrol it would only take a bit of Oil being burnt to mess up the exhaust emissions. granted it needs a high temp to do this but we are talking about internal combustion under pressure.
Its just another way of looking at it but I don't intend to get in a fuss over it
Nick
I agree totallay with the fact that burning oil will increase the residual hydrocarbon count in the exhaust gas, what i disagree with is your suggestion that:
Hydro-Carbons show if you are burning oil
As if that was the case, any engine showing other than zero HC's
(IE: Pretty much All of them) must be burning oil, which of course they are not. Anyway, lets try and get back on topic as knowning my luck this guys car will be burning oil now. ROFLOL.
