View Single Post
  #109 (permalink)  
Old 07-07-2006, 06:46 AM
What'saCobra? What'saCobra? is offline
CC Member
Visit my Photo Gallery

 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Outside Miami, FL
Cobra Make, Engine: Several
Posts: 949
Not Ranked     
Default Driver's side smoke

Just a thought.

If the 'smoke' is black, it is likely fuel. If the smoke is blue, it is likely oil.

If black, you are on the right track chasing down the fuel system/carb. But, it should have excess fuel visible and smellable on both the pipes (small smells, please.)

If blue and one sided (ex: left side), you may have either a left intake gasket leak or a left head gasket leak. And visa versa.

If the blue smoke increases in hard right turns, you most likely have an left intake gasket leak. If the smoke is minimum and the plugs clean-up and run better all by themselves, in left turns, you definitely have a left intake gasket oil leak, probably from the oil galley under the intake manifold.

If it is not at all sensitive to left or right turns, it could still be the left intake gasket, but a leak near the bottom of the gasket. And visa versa.

You have earned my Annual Woe-is-me Award in the Extreme Trials & Tribulations Category, Not Including Wives or Ex-wives, Engines. Give your friend Cracker this info and tell him next time i come up there (in a couple of weeks), you get a free beer.

Mucho lucko.
__________________
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
George Washington

Last edited by What'saCobra?; 07-07-2006 at 06:51 AM..
Reply With Quote