Rebuild at what level of oil consumption

[JEL91Westy]

My 1990 Westy runs okay, but has felt down on power lately and is now burning a quart of oil every 500mi. My question is at what point does oil consumption equal rebuild time.
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91 Westy
85 911

[DanHoug]

as my father would say... "Oil is cheap"
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-dan
60% of what you find on the internet is wrong, including this post.

'87 Westy & '89 Westy both 2.1 4spd

Past projects can be found at--
www.thefixitworkshop.com

[fxr]

I did the Subie swap when I got to 1 qt every 250 miles - basically every gas fill-up. That was about 1000 miles after it went to 1 qt every 500 miles. No drips - all being burnt.
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Jim Crowther
1984 1.9l EJ22 Westy Wolfsburg Edition
Vespa GTS 300

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[Wildthings]

The engine that was in my 83-1/2 $400 wonder when I bought it started out using a quart every 3-500 miles and slowly increased to a quart every 50-100 miles over the next 70,000 miles when the engine died from a freak incident that had nothing to do with the the oil use or much of anything else that could have been foreseen.

My wife followed me many times over the years or I followed her when she had the van and the engine never smoked unless we had been careless and badly overfilled the crankcase.

[Vanagon Nut]

[dabaron]