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Author Topic: Blue smoke first start after sitting a while  (Read 2279 times)

Snigalfriz

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Blue smoke first start after sitting a while
« on: February 14, 2012, 06:00:00 PM »
A while is several hours.  I know that it is oil, but is it more like to be the valve guides, rings or something else.  I would expect that if it were the rings it would pretty much smoke all the time.

Any thoughts?
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Rocketman

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Blue smoke first start after sitting a while
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2012, 07:13:00 PM »
Rings would smoke all the time and you'd show low compression on a compression test.

Valvestem seals would be the likely culprit.
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Snigalfriz

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Blue smoke first start after sitting a while
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2012, 01:55:00 AM »
What should the compression be?
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1991 Mercury Capri 5-sp
1992 Mercury Capri 5-sp swap
1999 Ford Contour SE 24v v6
2003 Lincoln LS
2007 Saturn Outlook XE AWD
2014 Chevy Cruze LT