[Public-List] White smoke

[Janet Kirk]

Gord... Smoke is pretty diagnostic:

White: Water in the cylinder(s) - head gasket (bad news)

Blue/ Gray: Oil burning - rings, valves (Try Marvel Mystery Oil)

Black: Mixture - carb

A4's are wonderful.

Bob Kirk
Isobar #181

ps I've never been a believer in fogging.

At 05:08 PM 5/7/2010, you wrote:

>Well I got SURPRISE in the water this afternoon.  All went well but for one
>thing.  Our loyal A4 engine fired right up ... And smoked a fair bit as
>usual due to the fogging oil from layup burning away... But the smoke didn¹t
>stop.  At idle there is not much but if I rev her up there is a fair bit of
>smoke.
>
>I am quite worried about shot rings or a gasket... Anybody have less
>expensive ills to put under this symptom?  I have heard of rings sticking...
>Hopefully that may be my problem.


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