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Re: [Healeys] Help - Oil smoke in exhaust

To: "Alan Bromfield" <alan.bromfield@virgin.net>,
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Help - Oil smoke in exhaust
From: Peter C <peter@nosimport.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:13:26 -0500
Alan,
         I and a few friends with the same era Spridgets have had the 
same thing. Start up, drive for (me) exactly 1.65 miles, smoke 
billows out at that point which is exactly when the temp gauge moves 
off cold, then it stops exactly .58 miles later.
         Solution?  fergataboutit.   Actually, I've come to utilize 
it as at .75 miles I am turning on to a highway, where people tend to 
run up my back.... I loose them in a cloud, and off I go! It's not 
oil smoke either..it's stinkier and black.
         Honestly, it's been discussed for years, and it happens only 
on a certain generation of smog stuff.. the earliest.
Peter C.
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At 09:31 AM 3/22/2008, Alan Bromfield wrote:

>Team.
>I need some direction from your collective wisdom. A fellow club member with
>a MkIV Sprite has a recurring problem on his freshly rebuilt engine.
>
>Soon after startup if the car is left to idle for about 3 or 4 minutes it
>starts to smoke, quite badly. After another couple of minutes or so, the
>smoke clears and from then onwards everything is clean and sweet. We thought
>it was a matter of rings needing to bed in, so the car has had about 40 - 50
>miles of gentle running but it has made no difference.
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