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Subject:1.9L exhaust smoke after sitting for 30 days
From:Michael Elliott
Date:Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:55:24 -0800

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.

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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