smoke upon start up

[Joshua C]

From: "Vincenzo Basile" <Bleaf1 at peoplepc.com>
To: <200q20v at audifans.com>
Subject: smoke upon start up
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:56:18 -0400

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Hi list
I really need someone's help.Upon start up these past few days i started no=
ticing a little black smoke,thought nothing of it.Until today,after work I =
started it up and it smoked up the whole parking lot I mean smoke everywher=
e ,there was a nasty smell too like something is burning almost like rubber=
,there was no white smoke and smell  of  antifreeze so I guess I could rule=
out head gasket.As I continue to drive the car it went away ,but not that =
smell,whats weird is the car seems to run fine.I tried pulling codes and on=
ly got the O2 sensor.If theres is any body that could point me in the right=
direction I would really appreciate.,


This may seem like a stupid question, but did you see that the smoke was
coming out of the tail pipe or was it coming from the engine bay,
cats..etc..
If it is from the tailpipe I would wonder if your turbo shaft seal is worn?
I have not had experience with this but thought I rememberd hearing about
this, maybe someone can add to that theory or shoot it down based on
experience.
Did you recently change and possibly overfill the oil?
...something ain't right, I would agree that you shouldn't drive it
(personally I wouldn't start it until you had an idea of the cause and go
from there).



good luck-Josh

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