missing oil?

[catdaddy]

Throw some ideas at me folks. Took a 30 mile drive, noticed some lite smoke behind me. When I pull into a parking spot the truck just shut down. Under the hood was a small amount of oil that looked to be blown up on the drivers side manifold and a small puddle on top by the 1st spark plug on the plenum, but mostly dripping from the bottom of the truck. Put in about four qts & drove it home. could not find any leaks, but didn't have a chance to check really good. Gonna start tommorrow tho.

 

[marragtop]

Check the PCV valve and the oil sending unit.

 

[shaggymane]

Didn't it tell ya it was getting low on oil? If not.......

Check the oil level sensor on the side of the pan.

See this thread for a pic
http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=263177

 

[catdaddy]

Me thinks it's coming from the valve cover gasket, but found oil in the air inlet tube, is that from the bad pcv valve?

Re-torqued the valve cover bolts, gonna try & clean off the oil. While hitting the throttle I noticed smoke coming out of the dip stick tube. Could the oil have come from there & why is it smoking?

 

[Potomac30]

Excessive blow-by being sucked into your air intake via pcv and burned giving you the white smoke out the tailpipe possibly. Are your sparkplugs fouled? Adding 4 quarts of oil meant that you were driving around with only 1 quart in the engine, or you just overfilled it. Overfilling will make them leak.

 

[catdaddy]

This is what I know for sure, oil in air-intake & plenum and oil shooting out of dipstick tube. Oil level good & new pcv valve. All ideas are welcome,thanks.