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My mechanic called today to say that one of the cylinders is burning oil. I had brought the car in with white smoke coming out of right tailpipe after a 100 mile cruise.
Engine is a fresh upper rebuild with 800 miles, done just before I bought the car. There was no smoke in the beginning. Mechanic said that lower engine looks pristine.
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What are you loosing; water or oil? Do a compression check on all cylinders. Gauge is about $25 at Autozone and that's all you will need besides a spark plug wrench.
2 things ive learned, 1- everyone tells me if you rebuild the upper half, you run the risk of increasing compression in the cylinders which may lead to ring failure. 2-if milling or planing was done to the heads it must be complimented by matching the intake manifold. Im not saying this is your problem, but its something to consider.
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Well... a quart of oil in 100 miles and blue smoke would make ME think..... OIL! Do a compression check. Worst case is a bottom end rebuild. Has it ever been rebuilt? There aren't any external oil leaks? Get a friend to hold a piece of paper behind the exhaust to catch any oil and hammer on it for a minute throughout the RPM range (idle-5000ish). There should be nothing to show. Is the back of your car caked in a layer of oil residue?
I agree check the compression to make sure you're not losing oil through the rings. If it checks out ok, then I would look at the valve stem seals or valve guides.
If the heads were rebuilt 800 miles ago, there shouldn't be too much carbon buildup yet in the exhaust ports, so you could also try taking off the exhaust manifold and looking for an overly soot filled exhaust port.
Just a thought.There is a little thingy on the side of the trans (forgot what its called) and it has something to do with the vacuum kickdown.If that is faulty then trans fluid can be sucked up into the intake manifold and results in white smoke.
That's the vacuum modulator. And I've seen that happen before but he's loosing a quart of oil in 100 miles. Not trans fluid. This sounds like rings or as Oldmandan pointed out, valve stem seals.
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