Originally Posted by farmerjg

I'm rebumping an old thread, but it's mainly just to put an update on here so if anyone in the future searches for it they'll see it.

My Monte had eventually got to the point where it was consuming about a quart of oil every 3,500 miles. As I was driving down the road this past winter my LIM gaskets decided to completely go. Since I changed those I've now put 5,500 miles on my current oil and the oil mark on the dipstick has not budged even a little. I had no oil in my coolant when I did the change and I never had a leak under the car or out the exhaust. It seems that my LIM's were maybe just leaking by so very slightly that I never noticed the oil, but since I made the change I've been consuming no oil. I'll call that a win.