My car is burning oil and idling rough. It rpm's seem to hang-up sometimes around 2k when I push in the clutch. And the oil consumption has been noticeably bad for the past 4 months. The car has NEVER gone through this much oil. At first, it only seemed like it was burning it on start up. So I took the car in. They did a compression leak-down . . . it checked out fine. I had them replace the valve seals . . . which they confirmed had some issues. That was two weeks ago. Got the car back and it "seemed" to be better. But about a week ago . . . it all starts up again. Puffing smoke on start-up . . . bad idle, etc. 




So now I'm thinking . . . PCV Valve? However, the shop told me that the PCV is built into the valve cover on 2005 models and you have to buy an entire new valve cover to replace it. Are you ****ing shiting me??? That sounds completely insane!!! It's like making your damn oil filter a permanent piece of the engine when you know that it will eventually need to be replaced. If Ford really did this, I must say . . . somebody is a ****ing dumb ass!!!
Can anybody confirm that this is actually true? If so, WHY?
So now I'm thinking . . . PCV Valve? However, the shop told me that the PCV is built into the valve cover on 2005 models and you have to buy an entire new valve cover to replace it. Are you ****ing shiting me??? That sounds completely insane!!! It's like making your damn oil filter a permanent piece of the engine when you know that it will eventually need to be replaced. If Ford really did this, I must say . . . somebody is a ****ing dumb ass!!!
Can anybody confirm that this is actually true? If so, WHY?