peeenl
Active member
Hello again everyone,
Thanks for all the help on my previous problems. I know this came up in my old thread, but I figured I'll start this over fresh since it was a second order issue.
Long story short is:
-Car sat for approximately 2 years.
-When I got it, the shipping company had messed with it a bit (swapped battery out for a crappy one, took some clamps, took some loose parts that were in it, and I think stole the fuel).
-New battery went in, but fuel wasn't getting through.
-replaced float pin assembly in the edelbrock carb.
-ran, moved...and I gave it an oil change because it started spitting oil out of the breather and because it had been so long.
-ran 10-15 minutes, no oil spitting...but had a double gasket on the oil filter, dumped oil, I shut it off instantly.
-second oil change, wouldn't start, fuel wasn't getting there again
-took the carb off, and used all the parts in the rebuild kit this time
-starts again as off today!
So...in this whole process every time it started and ran it would smoke. Always seems to start as heavy white, but will dissipate to where one tailpipe is clear and the other seems blue, but very very light smoke. (It is true dual exhaust) Half of my mind thinks if I run it long enough it will just dissipate out, but the other half of my mind is a little scared to run it very long.
Someone in my old thread did mention this could be a sign of worn valve stems. I kind of wrote that off because I had rebuilt the engine just prior to it being in storage. I had gotten assembled aftermarket aluminum heads. With the valves being metal, I'm just assuming they wouldn't wear out just sitting there. Please let me know if I'm wrong though.
How worried should I be about running it if its smoking lightly?
Is it common for an engine to smoke just because of how long its been sitting?
Thanks for all the help on my previous problems. I know this came up in my old thread, but I figured I'll start this over fresh since it was a second order issue.
Long story short is:
-Car sat for approximately 2 years.
-When I got it, the shipping company had messed with it a bit (swapped battery out for a crappy one, took some clamps, took some loose parts that were in it, and I think stole the fuel).
-New battery went in, but fuel wasn't getting through.
-replaced float pin assembly in the edelbrock carb.
-ran, moved...and I gave it an oil change because it started spitting oil out of the breather and because it had been so long.
-ran 10-15 minutes, no oil spitting...but had a double gasket on the oil filter, dumped oil, I shut it off instantly.
-second oil change, wouldn't start, fuel wasn't getting there again
-took the carb off, and used all the parts in the rebuild kit this time
-starts again as off today!
So...in this whole process every time it started and ran it would smoke. Always seems to start as heavy white, but will dissipate to where one tailpipe is clear and the other seems blue, but very very light smoke. (It is true dual exhaust) Half of my mind thinks if I run it long enough it will just dissipate out, but the other half of my mind is a little scared to run it very long.
Someone in my old thread did mention this could be a sign of worn valve stems. I kind of wrote that off because I had rebuilt the engine just prior to it being in storage. I had gotten assembled aftermarket aluminum heads. With the valves being metal, I'm just assuming they wouldn't wear out just sitting there. Please let me know if I'm wrong though.
How worried should I be about running it if its smoking lightly?
Is it common for an engine to smoke just because of how long its been sitting?