Oil consumption

Do me a favor and try this:

Top off oil to your desired fill mark if not already.

Drive truck, ensure operating temperature is normal. Park truck at home, set a 5 min timer. Check oil level.

Every 1500 miles do the same thing, in the exact same location. This sets a standard drain back time into the oil pan, and exact same location your oil is checked.

Let us know if the level is still dropping. I can’t remember what Toyota’s “acceptable oil consumption” is, but mine never burnt any noticeable amount of oil in 89k miles.

Hot and cold oil levels will vary a bit. We had this problem at work with one of our large generators. Every week we did a preventative maintenance work order on this generator. People kept overfilling the motor. What some people didn’t realize is one side of the dipstick was for cold oil temps and the other side was for normal operating oil temps.

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What do you think @landphil, maybe a 1/2 qt at most?

 

I broke mine in rather quickly with tow duties.