2019 2.7L Oil Consumption Issue

[razziel24]

Hello there.

Did anyone diagnosed and corrected this issue ?

Im having the same problem on my 2019 ST

No oil marks in the garage floor, no blue smoke, no visible oil leaks in the engine...

Just one weird finding... the sparkplugs for the visible bank (the ones i could check) have oil in the outside, i removed them and the inside is fine, no oil inside the chamber.

Could this be a valve cover gasket issue ?   pcv ?

any help would be gladly appreciated.

thanks

[enigma-2]

I would offer two possibilities. 

 

As you suspected, one very real possibility could be that the plastic valve cover is cracked, or the sealant has failed, creating an oil leak that drips into the spark plug wells. 

 

Another, (and more common possibility) is that oil was spilled during a past oil change and pooled in the spark plug well. 

[antb97]

I posted here back in January. A handful of us have chatted within here, on other FB groups etc. 

Something we all reported on was it was more apparent on consuming when the vehicle was idling or remote started. 

I did 3 rounds of oil consumption tests paid for by the dealer. I noticed that the one time the vehicle lost half a quart, within a 1000 mile span. Otherwise everything was in spec on oil consumption.

After tons of analysis and paying attention to when sometime the blue/white smoke is visible I noticed when the vehicle idles for say 30 mins. I can drive parking lot speeds and get some nice smoke, the smoke doesn't linger to bad, and is certainly not thick or alarming.

I believe its a turbo pooling the oil then burning it. Why it's so intermittent I couldn't tell you. I reduced my idling and remote starts and haven't noticed the issue. Removed the catch-can just in case, no change, replaced the PCV valve, no change. 

I've ruled out the easy things, a TSB exists for a turbo oil supply line for f150, been considering replacing my line but havent looked deep into it to see if the part changed at all for the Edge
 

[omar302]

9 hours ago, antb97 said:

I've ruled out the easy things, a TSB exists for a turbo oil supply line for f150, been considering replacing my line but havent looked deep into it to see if the part changed at all for the Edge
 

 

Probably not the issue, but something to think about or get ideas. There was a TSB for the 2013-2015 FWD 3.5 EcoBoost (link) that fixed the smoking with changing the PCV cover adapter.