So, my motor is burning a little oil off and puffing some silver/blue smoke. I have total seal rings on there and ARP head studs and the machine shop filed and installed the rings for me. I took the cams out today and retorqued the head, but it was still tight from when I originally installed it.

When I took the #1 spark plug out today, I could see that the top of the piston was black and wet looking so I'm sure I'm buring oil. I'm running an OEM head gasket, but if that were not working correctly wouldn't I be burning coolant too?

Anyone have any ideas?

 

Do a compression test. If numbers are low in one or more cylinders, add some oil to them and retest. If compression goes up, it's your rings, if it stays the same or goes down, it's your valve seals.

 

:thumbup:

I meant to do that when I had it all apart yesterday too. I'll do that today.

Thanks mang! I'll post up the results.

 

coolant would be white smoke

 

Yes, hence the fact that I'm puffing blue/silver smoke.

 

i was in the intentions that you were asking if burning coolant would be making blue type smoke

 

not to be an ass, but didn't you just spend $$$ building that engine?

 

Ya, and I did a dam good job. This is just another kink that I have to work out of it. Try building a motor somtime.