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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:55:24 -0800
Reply-To:   Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:   Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:   1.9L exhaust smoke after sitting for 30 days
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Getting Mellow Yellow ready for a trip to the desert, hopefully to catch some spring showers. MW's been sitting for about 30 days without being run. I needed to move it to do some work on the upper ball joints, and when I started the engine the hydraulic push rod rattled, which is normal when the engine hasn't been run for a while. What was unusual was a fairly amount of smoke (not white water, but gray oil) that came out of the exhaust for the first 30 seconds or so.

-- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR


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