Losing oil - burning smell

[whitepr]

99 Disco II w/125,000 miles

I changed my oil this weekend and noticed that my Disco lost over a quart of oil since the last change just over two months ago. I am not leaking any fluids on the ground so I am assuming I am losing it thru the rings. I have also noticed a slight burning smell when I pull it into my garage lately. Any thoughts or concerns I should be aware of? Any evidence of these problems getting worse?

The engine has never needed much maintenance, except a new intake gasket at 90k miles.

 

[97rover]

well you do have a oil leak some where if you lose a quart of oil and you experience a burning smell. The burning smell is probably your oil burning on your exhaust manifolds. When did you notice the lack of oil. How long in between checks? you probably have a small oil leak with no evidence of it hitting the ground yet. I would crawl under and take a good look. There is also this die you can buy and put it in your oil and check with a black light and it will show you where your leak is if you have a dirty underbelly. Most Rovers have some sort of leak.

 

[whitepr]

I have looked underneath quite a bit and have not been able to find a leak. I may need to look into some die. It had probably been a month since I had last checked the oil level. There is not even a drop on a clean garage floor so it can't be coming out too fast. The SES light just came on yesterday as well, but it is giving me the usual O2 sensor codes. I can usually take care of that after spraying the MAF sensor with cleaner. Think there is any relation this time to the oil or just a coincidence?

Thanks

 

[98GRDisco]

I would say check you engine oil cooler pipes. I was having a similar problem on my 98 Disco w/ 85000 miles but I don't know if the problems is fixed because I just replaced them on this passed weekend.

 

[whitepr]

Oil leak found. On the back side of the valve cover. The leak finally spread around to where I could see some oil build-up trickling down to the exhaust manifold and bolts below. Going to order new gaskets and bolts and see if the problem is solved.

 

[97rover]

Good luck. The valve cover gaskets are pretty easy to replace.