Car trouble--I know, it's a long shot

[Matt Attallah]

Hm...

You claim that it's your oil light comming on. And you do put in oil.

1. How much oil?

I assume you do NOT see any blue smoke - or you'd know where all your oil is going to?

2. Is there ANY type of smoke?

Heh...oil over the engine. If you look around the driver side - to the left of the exhaust pipe (going over the transmission) and see if you have oil puddling up there. Forgranted if it's loosing the amount of oil you claim you'd see a drip or two on the ground where ever you parked it. If there is oil there than you are leaking oil out of the "Distribuitor plug seal" and this is a very-very common problem with GM engines...

3. Is there any oil leaking?

The burnoff can be time consuming. On my 5.0 V-8 towncar it burns about a quart every 5,000 miles - so you won't see it - but you know it's gone! Are you sure it's within a few times of driving the car - or do you just kinda 'zone-out' of the amount of times/time driven in the vehicle? (Don't be offended - you'd be suprised at how many people loose track of how many times/miles they have driven their vehicles..)

Just a little probing and you should be able to get to the bottom of the problem!