Blue Smoke, Blue-White Smoke. Some people would call it white smoke.
This is hard to define exactly. If the smoke is other than black, which
indicates an excess fuel problem, a compression test is absolutely in
order as a first test. If things are not right, you can do a lot of
damage while just messing around trying other things before you get to
the compression test. The compression test will immediately tell you the
condition of the cylinders, pistons, rings, valves, and guides , and
indirectly the heads.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Mike Miller wrote:

>Too much oil causes white smoke?  I thought it would cause blue smoke?
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>Shows what I know.
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>Mike
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>On 12/31/03 9:15 PM, "mark drillock" <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
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>>You need to correct the amount of oil in the engine first. Too much oil
>>can cause smoking, white smoke. Put the van on a level spot and make
>>sure the level is correct by removing a few quarts.
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>>If nothing else you can drain all the oil and then put 4 quarts of fresh
>>oil back in. The smoking should stop shortly after you correct the over
>>filled situation.
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>>Mark
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>>Ben S wrote:
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>>>...............
>>>this afternoon, i went to take a better look.  at this point i was still
>>>thinking that my problem was some kind of oil leak, so first i checked
>>>the oil level.  it was overfilled.  this leads me to beleive that
>>>perhaps i made an erronous reading the night before.  it was dark and
>>>snowing; i was on a steep hill on a blind curve blocking half a lane and
>>>was quite anxious and hurried.  so i started the engine cautiously.  it
>>>started easily and idled smoothly.  the oil pressure light stayed off.
>>> and huge clouds of white smoke billowed from the exhaust.
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