Dustin Jones wrote: >About 200 miles into my engine break in afte a rebuild, my 2.1L is blowing >white smoke when I start it up. Smells like unburnt fuel, not sweet like >coolant. I can see little drips of condensations coming out of the tail pipe >that quickly evaporate. Am I running rich? Leaky injectors? Maybe I should >take it to a shop and have the exhaust sniffed. I can't tell if it continues >to smoke while I am driving, I don't see any trail of it. I hope it is not >the head gasket, I will flip a lid!! I just got my baby running again after >a 3 year hiatus from throwing a rod and blowing a hole in the engine >block..... > > > > 1) Blue-white smoke - oil 2) Black smoke - fuel #1 - BTDT - burned a hole in a piston - pumped blue-white smoke before total failure. Should have been warning enough. I didn't get the message and got stranded on the side of the road half way between Somewhere, OK and Nowhere, OK. on a Saturday night. Very bad spot to be in. You may have a 1) ring failure of some kind 2) valve guide failure of some kind. A compression test will tell the tale. Good luck. Regards, John Rodgers 88 GL Driver |
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