[s-cars] Smoking is hazardous to my sanity

[Walsh, Edward]

Greetings my smoke free S friends,

The saga continues..........

A little more information about my car's desire to emit a lovely plume of
smoke after it has sat for a couple hours...If you don't recall, it smokes
only on startup for about 30 seconds.  Driving the car ends the smoke.
There is no (measurable) coolant or oil consumption.  No oil in
coolant/coolant in oil. Boost/vac are strong.  Idle is smooth.  Car is
otherwise perfect. The smoke is most likely fuel related, though its not
black, it is whitish/gray.   I drove behind a Crown Victoria POS the other
day and THAT was burning oil.  My car's smoke doesn't smell like burning
oil, more like a strong NoX/Co2

New data!  Now that it is cooler in N.E., I am getting (a lot) more smoke in
the morning.  This seems to correspond inversely to the very low levels of
smoke when it was 95+ degrees out over the summer... One could surmise that
it is something to do with the cold start/enrichment system, but I throw no
codes?  Leaky injector (still need to test that)?.  OTOH, if it is oil, it
is not "burnt" oil, which was a very distinct and recognizable smell.  My
leading suspect for any oil intrusion is the valve guide seals.  Anyone know
how to test these for leakage?

Any other tips/thoughts?  Anyone have a spare ECU so I can eliminate the
recent MTM 1+ as the culprit?

Thanks a bunch,

Ed "living in a Cheech and Chong state of mind" Walsh


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