Burning Oil/ Service Engine soon light

JRJ0487

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1994 FORD TEMPO
66,700 MILES

I have a 1994 ford tempo 6cylinder. It recently had the "service engine soon " light pop on and I cant determine what it is. The car has burnt about 4 quarts in roughly 4000miles. I changed, Plugs, wires, pcv, oil, oil filter, fuel filter, air filter. And its running fine. Im trying to figure out why else it would be burning the oil. As well as the effing light

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MHPAUTOS

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You need to get a diagnostic scan done to extract the fault codes, get this done and report the faults here for further assistance.

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Saturday, July 9th, 2011 AT 3:18 PM

CJ MEDEVAC

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You can get your code scanning done at many popular auto parts stores. For Free!

Return w/ #s and mhpautos, might can, make sense out of what they mean, and then give a diagnoses, and what to check or tackle 1st.

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Saturday, July 9th, 2011 AT 3:53 PM

JRJ0487

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Thank you both, im going to have it checked shortly and ill post whats to follow. Thanks again

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Saturday, July 9th, 2011 AT 4:24 PM

FIXITMR

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Actually a quart for as thousand aint bad for an old car with high miles. Yours could be 166 or even 266? You could try a heavier oil like 10/40 or even 20/50 as this engine dont have the tolerances of the new stuff. But maybe you arn't burning it at all but leaking it! Or a combination of the 2. How do the plugs look?

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Sunday, July 10th, 2011 AT 1:03 AM