white smoke on startup

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

We've had a couple of worn out diesels run like crap till they warmed up,
and things started to seal better. Meant compression was somewhere in the
basement. Blue smoke on decel is rings, have someone follow you and check
for it. My 81 Audi did that :)
Cathy

On 12:55 pm 11/02/07 "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If the white smoke has a blueish tinge to it then it's oil smoke.
> Worn rings, worn valve guide and/or seals.
>
> From: "levi perkins" <subawrxsti@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <desinor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <Scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 12:16 PM
> Subject: Re: white smoke on startup
>
>
> almost every time but if it sits 5 mins it will smoke a little. it
> has been getting colder here i think its been around 32 degrees
> almost every night here. ill go check the coolant and see if i have
> any missing
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jean-Claude D?sinor <desinor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: levi perkins <subawrxsti@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 2, 2007 8:27:06 AM
> Subject: Re: white smoke on startup
>
>   Does it do that at every startup or only when cold?
>
>     Jean-Claude
>     84 8v (still romping around, what with the nice weather)
>
> levi perkins a ?crit :
> >  my car has been spewing white smoke on start up but after about 1
> >  min or 2 it goes away till the next time i start the car im not
> >  quite sure what it is. im thinking its i need to adjast my valves
> >  or one of my valve seals is bad  just wondering if you guys had
> > any input.
>
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