Hello again guys,
I have a problem of blue smoke coming out of my left side exhaust. Initially I had a bad intake gasket that was located by spraying wd40 at the intake/head. I was going thru a lot of oil. I replaced those Mr. Gasket gaskets with the Fel Pros. The wd40 test now shows no vacuum leak. A check of the spark plugs now shows oil fouling on all left side plugs, though one plug did not look as bad as the other three. The right side plugs looked better than the left but they didn't look as good as I expected. There was evidence of oil on two or three of them as well. If this is in fact another intake gasket problem, I think I will try the turkey pan gasket instead of the individual gaskets that I have been using. If it turns out to not be a bad intake gasket, my next guess is that the rings did not seat properly. If it is the rings, I don't know what to do about that? If it was one bad intake valve seal, I should only have one oily plug, right? It seems pretty unlikely that I would have multiple bad intake valve seals. The smoke problem is very noticeable when I fire the engine, it then seems to clean up for a few seconds and then starts to smoke again and doesn't quit. What do you guys think?
Thanks,
Art
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