On Sep 29, 2008, at 7:33 PM, Jake de Villiers wrote:

> Well, John left out 'White smoke coming from the Vatican chimney -
> new Pope
> selected'  =)

Also Vog, or volcanic smoke/haze as in Hawaii recently.

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-& now back to our regularly scheduled programming-tires, oil,
middle seats, etc.

>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Jim Cochran <mxsailor@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There it is, Volks. The three commandments.
>> Jim C
>>
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2008, at 4:01 PM, John Rodgers wrote:
>>
>>  The thread on white clouds prompted this for the record.
>>>
>>> Black Smoke - overly rich fuel mixture - fuel control problem. Check
>>> fuel and induction components.
>>>
>>> White Smoke - usually coolant related - gotta leak somewhere into
>>> the
>>> Exhaust system - Could be head gaskets, cracked heads.
>>>
>>> Blue or Blue-white Smoke -  Usually an oil problem - rings, bad
>>> valve
>>> guides, scored cylinder wall. A compression check is in order on
>>> this
>>> one. Often the tailpipe pipe will be oily.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> John Rodgers
>>> 88 GL Driver
>>>
>>
>
>
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> Jake
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